One division of the gang including eight males and two females were arrested on June 19 when the police raided u house in Chinese territory und were remanded for the remainder of the To these prisone: was attributed murder of eight-year old chil whose body was found on Moulmein Road wi hits throat cut. Attached to the body was a note stating that the murder had been committed for revenge on the parents for failing to pay the ransom which they demanded.
Two. others were later arrested and this led to the arrest of five more by Detective Sub-Inspector Yorke at 882 Baikal Road where' they found one of their kidnapped victims, the son of a wealthy Chinese widow. The boy had been seized on May 27 while on hhis way to school and was accompanied by his amah. The appets had written several Tetters to the mother of the child demanding a ransom of $20,000. Both the child and the amah identified the bandits in court on Wednes-Gay. The first of the five accused was alleged to be the leader of the ing, the second the chauffeur who Grove the car during the kidnapping affair, while the other three had also taken part in the escapade.
In their various arrests the police confixeated nine ie pistols In Court last Friday one of the fifteen who appeared entered the prisoners' box with his head. well Bandaged on account of his which had been bitten off by the first accused in a fight in their cell. The two prisoners did not agree in tan argument over a debt of one doland the first grabbed his foe ai bit of half his ear. Among the gang was a Chinese priest who been implicated in the affair through a letter found in possession of another of the seventeen: however, in court he stated he had come to pray for the rest of the prisoners.
The third a1 charged with writing a letter demandi $100,000 for one of their captives, bhut gave evidence in court that he did so at the dictation of another, he was unable to read and did not know what he wrote. The seventh accused is held for ai the alleged bandits and preventing the release of one kidnapped child who was later murdered, and he was sentenced on Wednesday to six Throughout the trial the 1 prisoners put up a very unworried api and stated in their cross-examination that they would admit to anything which they had committed, as they cared nothing for their lives.
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