A story of the re-arrest of an escaped convict and his audacity in sending a letter to the chief detective of Public Safety Bureau after making, his escape from the Bureau's custody came to light in the First Special District Court on March 16 at the trial of Chow Yung-on, alias Ti Yung-en, accused of being' concerned in a number of armed robberies in' Shanghai and the murder, in July. last, of an officer of the Nantao Public Safety Bureau when the latter attempted to arrest him, The prosecution told the Court that after the murder of the officer of Public Safety Bureau, the a tole his service pistol an hho fled with his Several days after, he in a teaeshop by mem-bureau, but, questioned about the pistol stolen from, the murdered officer, he said it had been sold toa man in'Nanking. In order to recover the Jost weapon, four detectives of the Public Safety Bureau escorted him to Nanking where he was placed under guard in lodging house. On a certain night, however, when his guards were' sound asleep, the accused escaped.
Returning to Shanghai, the pro secution continued, the' accused wrote a letter to the chief of the detective force of the Nantao Public Safety Bureau, asking him, to pardon the four detectives whose negligence had resulted in his Jescape. The letter also said he had come back to Shanghai, The Municipal Police were informed and, on Monday, the accused was re-arrested by a Chinese detective of Louzn Police Station in the Yangtszepoo An application for the accused's extradition was made by are presentative of the Nantao Public Safety Bureau. As the police did not raise any objection to the application, it wae granted by the Court,
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