For the extortion of twenty cents from a Chinese woman, two jetty racketeers were sentenced to one year's "Imprisonment each by the Special District Court on Nov. 5.
The two men, Tsang Tuli-pao and Kwoh Ah-keng, who had been operating on wharves on the north side of the Soochow Creek before the war, recently frequented jetties on the Bund, demanding "landing tax" from passengers from Pootung. Both them had previous criminal re-
The particular crime was perpetrated on the Foochow Rond Jotty about 9 am, on Tuesday. Arriving ina sampan together with several others from Pootung, a Chinese woman, Koo Dang-sze, was surround-about five or six men lighter which was tied alongside the After a brief ariument, the woman paid the twenty cents "landing tax" fo the men. The crime, which was witnessed by her father-in-law, who had come to the jetty to meet her, Wax not reported to the Settlement Police owing, perhaps, to the small amount. involved, Detectives from the Central Police Station patrolling the area somehow obtained information of the racket teering business and arrested two of the gang. They were both ldentined by the woman and her father-in-law, 'Judge Dzien, of the First. Special District Court,' sentenced the men to one year's imprisonment each on charges of extortion,
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