the, Shanghai Provisional Court, on Thursday morning, an unemployed Chinese made his appeartance in connection with a charge of made Det.-Inspr, Telfer informed Judge Ling and Mr. Hasegawa, Senior Consul's Deputy, that the accused man was arrested on New Year"
Eve at 4 Rue clu Consular, by the French Police, together with four other men, it being thought that they wore members of a gang of armed robbers. During the period of remand by the French Mixed evidence was found show= accused and his friends were members of a robber gang, but the French Police, after taking accused's finger prints, handed him over to the Shanghai Municipal Police. From his finger prints, it was discovered that accused had been handed over to the Chinese authorities in September, 1926, after having been teand guilty of murder. 'The Prosecuting Solicitor, stated witness, desired to appear in the ense and' so. a remand was asked for.
Accused, in reply to the Judge questions, stated that he w by the Chinese authorities to imprisonment, but he was released when the Kuomintang took over Shanghai in order that might become a soldier.
A remand was ordered unfit' this morning.
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