Plot Revealed in District Court Hearing Charged with impersonating a public officer and also with extortion, Wu Pi-nien, a middle-aged Chinese, was brought before the First Special appropriations for the District Court yesterday on a writ of fiscal year, proposals calling detention. It was alleged in court for the construction of a new pri-that Wu was caught red-handed on middle schools, and Wednesday after he and two accom-conplices who are at large had visited a Chinese residence at House No. 8 Sun "Assembly of the Japanese Residents'
Yang Li, Amoy Road, where they ex-got under way yester-torted $25 by posing as detectives "in the Central Japanese Primary attached to the Anti-narcotics De-auditorium, the Japanese partment of the Settlement police.
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In presenting the case to the court, Mr, Paul Ru, Municipal Advocate, Smessinc the wide application of stated that several similar crimes graphy in modern civilization, might have been committed and that R. V. Dent, FRPS, TRINS, of, since most of the victims had violated Henry Lester Institute for Medi" the anti-narcotic regulations them-Research, gave an interesting selves things were hushed up. To before the Royal Asiatic facilitate investigations he asked the at the Society's Hall in court to postpone the hearing, which Road yesterday evening. request was readily granted, Jecture, which was fully illu-It was revealed in court that the strated by lantern slides, was design-trio paid a visit to the Amoy Road ed to show how photograph interlinks house knowing that an aged woman with almost every activity of modern had been smoking opium there. They presented two letters purporting to have been written by informants "Turne are about 15,000 coolies now in ready to embark for stating that the woman living in the house was an opium smoker. A little in the annual spring trek for on the Manchurian plains. item of $25 was introduced for keep-itches from Hsinking indicate ing the matter hushed up and after that with the melting of the snows being paid by one of the relatives of civil engineering, building, mining, the woman, it was alleged, they tried other industries will commence to escape when accidentally they met seasonal activities and that as a real detective at the door.
as one million labourers will be The detective at once held Wu but from (North China, roughly the other two men managed to escape of half a million on the with the $25 they had been paid. Wu was later taken to the Louza Police last year.
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