The number of thieves was raised to ien during the same afternoon when, acting on further information gathered from the arrested suspects. detectives apprehended six persons in a shop in Foochow Road. The next three men were taken into custody by the detectives after they had been implicated by their accomplices. Two of them were said to have been smelting copper cable, which would then be sold to different shops.
Investigations continued and the arrested persons implicated two others, both of them connected with a brass shop in Chung San Rod in the Western district. Acting in full ce-operation with the Western Shanghai Area Special Police Force and Japanese Gendarmerie, detectives from Wayside station raided the shop and arrested the two men.
AJl the fifteen men, of whom eight had confessed to previous thefts, were brought before the First Special District Court on Monday and were remanded in custody until next Monday to allow police to continue their investigations in connection with the case.
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