Wong Ab-ping, 30, unemployed, was brought before Judge Hyui in the Shanghai Special District Court: on October 25 for re-trial in accordance with instructions from the Kiangsu Provincial Government.
Accused was sentenced to death by the former Provisional Court on three charges of murder (including. the killing of Police Sit. Bloomfield in Chaoufoong Road on October 9, 1928, and the murder of Mi Dorothy A, Thompson in Keswi Road on the night of October 3, 1928), four charges of attempted murder (the would-be victims' including Miss M. Solomon in Scott Road on August 22, 1928, Mrs. L. Minford in North Szechuen Road! fon September 24, 1928, and Mr. Dudley Law in Keswick Road on the same night as the murder of:
Miss Thompson), several armed robberies, and a number of armed. highway robberies.
Judgment reserved until November 1, The "Red Flag" Again Four unemployed Chinese were! charged before Judge Yih in the Special District 'Court on October: 27 with having in their possession 'Communist literature, with committing offences against' the internal security of state, and with propagating anti-revolutionary doe-trines.
Mr. King $. Kum, Assistant} Manicipal Advocate, who appeared for the Municipal Police, told the Court that the first accused was arrested-by a Chinese constable on Sunday morning when he was found to possess no fewer than 5,312 copies of a paper called the "Red Flag." At the time of his arrest, accused was riding in a riesha. The riesha coolie stated that he had been hired by two Chinese and it was the other man who put the bundles in the ricsha. At first, accused refused to make any state: ments when questioned at the police station, but he later gave information which led to the arrest of the second and third accused at a lodge ing house.
At this place, Mr. Kum continued, no incriminating newspapers we found, but on a table, the. police founda letter ready for posting. The contents of this informed the recipient that the first accused had been arrested and warned him to make good his escape.
The first accused then took the police to a house off Honan Road where 3,181 more copies of the "Red Flag" were seized. He fur-their informed the police that he and another man occupied the room of. the lodging house which the police had raided. The result was that the police kept watch on this! ud the fourth accused was arrest Corroborative. statements were given by a Chinese constable and Detective "Probationary Sergeant Larkin, the latter further stating that, from inquiries made, the room on October 18, which was the date lof the first accused's release from the municipal gaol, Questioned by the Court, accused all denied that they were Communists. The first accused stated that small boy had given him the newspapers at the Chekiang Road Bridge and asked him to take them to another man who had escaped.
He was arrested as he was carrying out this request. He received only 60 cents for doing it, he said. The third accused admitted that he wrote the letter seized by the police and stated that it was to be sent to a. man who came from his native place. The fourth accused stated that he engaged the room.of the lodging house, but did not live there, He had removed from the lodging house when the police raided it.
'A remand, sine di was ordered,
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