The Archive · 1931

PRISONERS MAKE LAST REQUESTS Disturkance in Court Before

Execution Four Chinese, sentenced to death ly Judge Ng in the Special District Court in April for being con-[cerned in kidnapping Mr. Tsai Fu:

compradore of the British: American Tobacco Ca., Road on September 18° brought before the Court on' August 4 to express their Inst wishes before being escorted to. the Kiangsu No, 2 Prison at Tsacchoching. to face the firing squad of be, Greater Shanghai "Bureau of asked the Court to send letters to! their families, instructing the. Iat~ ter to bring their bodies to their: native districts for burial after the executions. The fourth man, Yeh Juh-chun, who was a member of the Special Police and who. had been Meatied by the victims wie as the man who acted as chauffeur during the kidnap [protested strongly against th: Court's decision and asked for 1 re-trial of the case on the ground! that he had been falsely implicated When told by the Court that it was too late for him to ask for a re-trial, the man shouted ani created' much confusion in the court-room, Meanwhile, his mother, wife and sons, who had come to the Court to say good-bye to rheic beloved one, burst. into eries and tried to prevent the police from taking away the prisoner, So much noise and trouble had they create]

the Court that they were subsequently forcibly removed from the court-room by the police, As usual, the four men were given food and wine and. then put nto the police ear which took them Teaochoching where they wero}

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