Them by Police Against a mounting mass of evidence produced by the police who charged them with no less than 14 med robberies and attempted mur-[ders in which they shot at the officers and police vans, 11 robber suspects several of them women, stood in the prisoners' dock in the First Special District Court yesterday. After a Iéngthy hearing the judge reserved the judgment, The suspects were rounded up some time ago by the Chengtu Road police asaresult ofaseries of raids, mostly in one conducted in a French Concession hotel where the officers seized one pistol and 14 rounds of ammunition. During the postponement of the first hearing which was held soon after their arrest the police have found out that between last December and September of this year they have committed numerous crimes in the western district, The court was told that they had once plotted the murder of a gambling house manager succeeding the former manager who had been murdered. The gambling house manager who was taken ill was lying in a hospital in Race Course Road. On the night of December 2 they victimized a Chinese residence in Jessfield Rocd and resisted the police intervention by firing at the police van. They were alleged to have robbed two constables of their service pistols in Brenan Road last winter, Among the robbery victims mentioned by the police are a sweet shop at 1034 Vu Yuen Rocd, a pedestrian in Vu Yuen Road who was relieved of cash on April 19, The pedestrian was shot and wounded by robbers who also fired at the police in pursuit. On June 2, it was further alleged, the suspects were responsible for the theft of more than $1,700 from the accountant of a gambling house in Great Western Road and the shooting of one of the bodyguards employed by the establishment.
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