The Archive · 1937

Bank Robber Captured

Alleged to be the leader of the gong who committed the daring highway robbery outside the Kiangsu Bank "Sinza Road branch, on February 3 this year, when' a police watchman was shot dead and two others were wounded by the gunnen, Nyung Sa0-ya, a former chauf-four, was brought' before the First Special District Court for the first time on April 20 and charged with murder, attempted murders and highway robbery and remanded for one week.

Nyung, implicated by one of the men already sentenced by the court, was brought to Shanghai from Anhwei Province where he fled some time a He was arrested with the ald of authorities in Anhwei. Two men were already sentenced to die and several others received prison terms for the bank robbery.

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