'The number of thieves was raised to ten during the same afternoon when. acting on further' information gathered from the arrested. suspects. detectives apprehended six persons in shop in Foochow Road, The next three men were taken into custody bby the detectives after they had been, Implieated by their accomplices. Two of them were said to have been molting copper cable. which would then be. sold to different shops.
Investigations continued and the arrested persond implicated two others, both of them connected with 8 brats shop in Chung San Road in the Western district, Acting in full ce-operation with the Western Shang-hal Area Special Police Force and Japanese Gendarmerie, detectives from Wayside station raided the, shop and arrested the two men, All the fifteen men: of whom eight had confessed to previous thefts, wer brought before the First Special Dis trict Court on Monday and were manded in custody until next Monday to allow police to continue their me vestigations in connection' with the case.
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