une 27.
Prison terms ranging between five and eight years were meted out yesterday' in "the Firs. Special District Court to seven robbers responsible for the $80,000 armed robbery committed on May 21 in the Yuen Vu Exchange Bank in Room 209, Shanghai Bank Building, at 40 Ningpo Rosd. The eighth man was given a suspended prison term of one year. One pistol and eight rounds of ammunition were confiscated.
It was be recalled that the crime was one of the most daring ones committed: in the downtown area. Afler foreing all bank assistants to slond at a corner, the robbers remained on the bink premises for some time awaiting the arrival of the manager from whom they ob-{tained the keys with which they opened cash boxes. Afler stealing various sums of money they escaped.
One of the accused was arrested soon after the crime and from him the "officers recovered $90,000. Through his confession, all the other Jeceused were arrested. Some of the arrests were made in Nanziang. Four of the men drew eight years each.
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