Shanghai, Apr. 26, Armed with two pistols,'six robbers lentored a Chinese house at 257/1 Rue Bluntechill at 10 am, yesterday and started ransacking the place for valuables, only to be arrested by the French police after a neighbour of the victim called the police to the scene of crime, According to investigations, the men entered the house without much dimiculty and the two armed men produced their firearms, intimidating the occupants and forcing them into ithe rear room where they locked them up.
'The robbers then proceeded to search for valuables, breaking open fall the drawers and' chests, Two of them turned their attention to the victims, but felled to And any money lor jewellery.
Meanwhile, suspecting that the lneweomers wore criminals, a neigh. hour, who had seen them' enter the house, telephoned the police and gave them the address, A party responded jand managed to arrest the entire nang before they had time to offer Jany resistance. In addition to the two pistols, a fully loaded revolver iwas found' on one of the arrested men.
The leader of the gang turned out to be 40-year old Ma Yi-tsai, an Jex-employee of a gambling den INantao, The other five are Heu vong-ching, Wang King-song, a coolie employed by a gambling ' den in INantao, Sia Ah-kong, Tsiang Ah-ping, and Zeng Chi-pao," a hawker. They will be brought ' before the [Second Special District Court this
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