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POLICE UP

ARREST

AGAINST BLANK FOLLOWS

WALL IN HOTEL LORRY HOLD-UP

AFFAIR INQUIRY INQUIRY

"At present we are up against a

SEQUEL TO

A DARING HOLD UP OF A LORRY IN SHAUKIWAN ON SATURDAY, AN UNEMPLOYED THEATRE ATTENDANT APPEARED BE

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blank wall, but inquiries are being FORE MR. H. R. BUTTERS STOP PRESS

BY TWO OR MORE.

continued," said the Hon. Mr. T. H. AT THE CENTRAL MAGIS- King, Commissioner of Police, this CHARGED WITH ROBBERY TRACY THIS MORNING, morning, in reference to an inci- dent at the Peninsula Hotel about four weeks ago, when the room of a lady guest was "invaded by an armed man..

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The story related to the Police was that five men, one armed with a revolver, stopped and boarded the

driver lorry, and ordered the

to proceed to the Central Police Station.

Chief figure in the drama was Mrs. Claude Brown, a recent ar-

In Gloucester Road, however, the rival in the Colony, who was driver was pushed off and the lorry awakened in the middle of the driven to Queen's Pier where the night by a man who spoke English goods on board were loaded into a and appeared to her to be a Japan-'sampan, the lorry being abandoned. ese and "apologisingly" struck her The haul included 20 bags of

with a revolver "to keep her quiet." Wolfram ore, valued at $500, three Apparently, according to the baskets of eggs, valued at $65, and police, the man entered Mrs. three bags of duck feathers, to Brown's room in error and made a the value of $70. hurried exit after threatening her

if she raised an alarm.

Chan Kau, 26, was remanded for

Police theory, based on the story 24 hours by Mr. R. R. Butters at related to them by Mrs. Brown, is the Central Magistracy this morn- that the intruder was searchingjing, when charged with snatching for a Chinese official he believed to a handbag from Miss Grimaneza be residing in the hotel.

Oroco, of Morrison Hill Road, near Leighton Hill Road, yesterday.

The only person who saw the man, however, was Mrs. Brown, and police efforts have failed to produce the slightest clue."

Defendant was remanded. for 72 hours, Sub-Inspector W. N. Darkins is in charge of the case.

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