The Archive · 1908

KIDNAPPING

'A hawker named Tan Ab-sze and s widow, Wang Tsang-sze, were brought up on remand on charge of having kidnapped a boy, aged five years, from the lawful custody of his parents residing in Markham Road, on the 12th instant.

The prisoners were sentenced to two years' imprisonment each.

In connexion with the same charge, 'a barber named King \h-sai was charged with unlawfully disposing of, and boatman named Yih Ah-wei was charged with illegally purchasing the said child, well knowing that he had been kidnapped.

The H.-€. Trerad and S. C. & C. Gasette.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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