The Archive · 1937

Complainant Made a Prisoner

Alleged Traitor Kidnapped by Nantao Police Arrested by the Shanghai Municipal Police on Tuesday, three alleged kidnappers were brought before the First Special District Court on the same day, and the case was heard in ihe Kiangsu High Court yesterday.

The accused, two agents of the Shanghai-Woosung Garrison and a detective attached to the City Government Police Bureau, were discharged. The plaintiff,' however, a grain merchant named Li An-tung, was ordered to be handed over to the Shanghai-Woosung military authorities on the grounds that he was a "traiter", and had supplied food to the Japanese forces, A party of detectives from the Shanghai Municipal Police, under Inspector A. G. Glover, who had been investigating the case, took Li back to police headquarters at the conclusion of the hearing, released him, and placed him under an armed escort,

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