On account of the risk of attempt-_ ing to escape on the part of the four ringleaders of the gang known as! No 21, who have been sentenced to: death and have appealed, the High Court has decided to hear this case within prison walls, This is the first time in the history of the Court here that such a procedure has been resorted to, and no doubt is due to! the fact that Harbin is under martial law. Whilst the trial of these h desperadoes was going on, and every time their presence was ni cessary in Court, extraordinary precautions were taken by the police. The prisoners, though fettered hands and fect and guarded by armed warders inside the prison-vans, had in addition a convoy of, some 40 mounted police arm. ed to the teeth. This _cavalcade when it drove down Kitaiskaya to and from the prison to the Court always attracted a great deal of attention as two Black Marinas were used in addition to a droshky for} the sole women prisoner who likewise had a couple of warders on leither side of her in the vehicle.
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