Crime In Samoa.
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Two “Bad Eggs” Are At Large.
From Our Own Correspondent.
APIA, April 30.
THE two “bad eggs” and gaol jumpers, Sumaile and Osea, have been at large now for three months, and it seems that no energetic efforts are made by the police to get hold of them.
A hold-up in American gangster style was reported a few weeks ago, when some Samoans stopped a taxi-car car rying Chinese coolies by felling a kapok tree across the road and tried to relieve the coolies of their money.
The coolies, however, bolted and escaped; but the Samoan driver, who tried to fight the bandits, was hit over the head with a stick and dropped un conscious.
Thefts are of common occurrence at present; and householders especially complain of numerous thefts of poultry during the night hours, when gates and locks of fowl houses are forced open.