The Archive · 1931

Arrest Gf Korean Murderer

SMP. Bring 10-Year Search to an End The Shanghai Municipal Police, acting conjunction with the Japanese Consular Police, on August 14 took into custody a Korean om a warrant dated tember 15, 1921, ging him with murder and robbery.

The man Read by Japanese D." arrested in Soochow 151, who was bby Consular Detectives After interrogation he was hand-Jed over to the Consular authorities land is now. being held the Japanese Gaol Whangpoo Road pending extradition, The warrant on which he was Jarrested states that the man, who. was a tramway ticket inspector, released on bail Chemulpo March '11, 1931, after completion of his preliminary examination on the capital charge. When some months later the Shingishu District Court summoned him to appear he was found toh absconded into 'Chinese terri Tu his absence The was found guilty and sentenced {to 15 years' imprisonment by that Court, @ sentence he will now have to serve.

The search for bim has, therefore, extended over 10 years and it was not known until a few hat he crashed near Sungkiang on August 12 and the pilot, Mr. Ho Chien-How, wae' seriously injured, The

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