The detectives got their clue about the falseness of tie case when they, saw that the man wore a gold ring. They asked him how it was that the robbers had not taken this away. with the result that the complainant} broke down and confessed to concocted the story to cover his own crime, that of misappropriating Sum of money given tim by his, brother to pay some bills.
According to his confession. he took the money. pald one bill and deposited the rest with a Chinese bank. "A cheque book was found hidden In his shoe.
The misappropriater. Sung _Chih-foh, was brought to the First Spectal Disirlet Court. but was allowed 10]
after his brother had decided t0 withdraw the charges.
The policemen then opened fire at! the vehicle and were answered by the passengers. The driver of the car. "however. lost control of the: wheel and the vehicle hie the barrier and stopped. The four passengers Jumped out of the car. with three of them still' firing and attempted to escape "into thi western Chinese area, One of them was wounded In doing so but the others managed to escape. The wounded man was believed t0 be one of the kidnappers. but his! condition did not allow detectives to question him yesterday. Tt was beloved. however, that he would be able to supply detectives with neces: tary information in connection with the crime today. Other casualties the shooting affray included a Chinese police sergeant and two constables, one of whom was given litle chance survive, House "Cleaning"
June 'The French police are investigating numerous cases of larceny, believed fo have been committed by' the same gang Ju foreign houses in the Con. cession, Several days ago, three Chinese presented themselves at a foreign house In the Concession ana offered their services as specialists in clean~ eupant of the "specialists" had taken of the fact. that they watched and had taken a Jorge sum of money and some valu. bles from the chest"of Srawers in one of the rooms, The procedure used by the thieves fs not new. Only recently, a crime committed under similar
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