Refusal to, Testify Against His svi was kidnapped in January last Honan, Road banker,
and mulcted of $860,000 ransom money, is now in the role of a fugitive Front justice,.he having left Shanghai in order to avoid appearing in Court to give evidence against his abductors.
His ease furnishes another example of the utter indifferehee and lack of civic spirit displayed by some Chinese in failing to ea-operate with the Police authorities in bri criminals to justice, and deterring others from following in the paths of crime.
Three members of a gang of tea responsible for the abduction were enced by Judge Liang on the h instant in the Provisional 12 years' imprisonmei euch, The extrenie penalty for the of armed kidnapping is death, in this Instance, duc to the Failure Of the complainant to appose in Court to give evidence to prove the charge right up to the hilt, the Court had no other alternative hut to impose terms of imprison-mont, The ease first came up for hoarinye on March 13 last and, from Lime to time had been postponed to await the appearance of the com plainant, it having been said when service of " warrant was attempted that he had gone to Ningpo avd then to Dalny, The last message received front the complainant wits to the effect Chat, ax he had paid the ransom money, it was no business of the Police to bother themselves about the case any further The Woman in the Case The duets, of the cave were that two unemployed, a watchman and Chinese wourari' were charged with the kidnapping of a wealthy Honan Road banker from a motor cxr Wooehanyg Road, sometime dur January, 1928, and detaining hint For ra al 274 Point "Road.
Aveerding to Inspe. Mayen, who prosecuted in the ease, a ransom of $360,000 was paid for his release. A Chinese detective, acting on, information yeveived,' on March "11 went to the Nantao Bund and vested the first and second accused, The information supplied was to the effect that two men who had taken part in a Kidnapping ease would be coming buck to Shanghai from Kompo that morning. The third and fourth scoused subsequently were arrested in East Broadway, and ab the latter house the Police Found a number of bills for gold ornaments and some bank receipts, fievt two accused made statewenlx to the Police in which they declared that they took no part in the actual kidnapping, but were pressed Mat the point of a pistol"
nct as guards, and that they only xob $400 each ux their share of the proceeds. The first accused said that the second and third accused were each paid $1,000, and in one ease this was borne out by the slalement of a witness who said that the second accused had paid him $027 in banknotes as part payment on the purchase of a motor truck.
An accountant of the Ningpo Commercial Bank said that, on December 24,1027, his bank had paid over to complainant's bank $300,000, at the request of the Hung Da Bank, for their account,
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