'A cook, a coolie and an unen~ ployed Chinese were charged in the Provisional Court on Wednesday with kidnapping a 12-year old boy from the care of his parents on June 2 and with holding him for ransom.
Det-Sgt. Tabrum stated that accused were arrested on June 7 fat 240A Pingliang Road. The police acted on information received and went to the house where they found two men guarding the boy. who had been kidnapped from" out side his home in Avenue Foch in the French Concession five days before. When the police entered the place, they discovered a revolver underneath a bed. The boy had been lured away from outside his home by one of the accused men Jand taken to the house in Pingliang, Road. The first and second accused were arrested inside the house and the second outside. This man apparently was on guard to watch for the approach of the police. The boy had been playing outside his home when one of the accused came uup and asked him to come and have something to eat. The boy replied that he had just had his breakfast and did not want anything more to feat, whereupon the man persuaded him to board a riesha which took him to the place where he was imprisoned. On several occasions boy had informed the police, he had been beaten by the men with whipcords and told that he would be killed if he raised an alarm. He did not actually see a pistol but one of the men who said he would shoot the boy put his hand in_a box as if to draw a pistol.
The father of the boy, testifying, said that he had gone to the marke: and had left the boy playing outside the house. The kidnappers had demanded $10,000 for his ransom. As soon as he received information fas to the kidnappers whereabouts, hho informed the police.
Accused denied the charge. At the request of the police, the charge against the third accused was withdrawn but the other two were sentenced to death and the revolver was confiscated,
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