The Archive · 1939

Suspect Arrested Shanghai, Jai

On suspicion that he was one of the robbers who participated in the daring $30,000 robbery" ata coal hong. in Sinza Road at midnight on Jan. 15, Ling Chia-pin who gave his vocation asa hardware store stock: holder. was brought before the First Special District Court yesterday on writ of detention.

Ling dented that he had particip: ated in the crime In any manner and explained that the $920 and five bank books found in his possession were not stolen by him. He borrowed the money from a friend he said. Li however, was identified as one of the robbers by assistants of the victim zed coal hong Ling was arrested in a most_unusual manner ina bus in the Bubbling Well District, Two employees. fof the victimized hong accompanied some. police detectives to travel in the district in the hope of finding the robbers, The spotted Ling and at ange asked! the police to arrest him.

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