The Archive · 1925

Russian Cut-throats Convicted On Thursday last the District

Court passed sentence on the members of the Leineff gang which eommitted a series of armed robberies and murders in Harbin ip 1923, This gang of cut-throats came from Vladivostok and were known there Gang No 22. They terrorized this seaport prior to fleeing to Harbin. Among the crimes they are accused of having committed are the killing of a secret service agent named Nuidin and his wife, the orders of a prison warder and his wife, a watchman at the Iverek Church and his wife, and the kil of two railway employees.

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

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