Shanghai, Apr. 12.
A complainant in a pickpocket case became a defendant yesterday when he was charged in the First Special District Court with unlawful detention, 'The man, Lee Zu-wel, aged 43, was inspecting some goods' on a whart along Soochow "Creek, on April 8, when he caught red-hand-one Ching Ah-riy! attempting to steal his wallet, according to the prosecution, Instead of sending the iekpocket to police, the complainant Setained him in a boat, bound hand and foot with strong rope, 'The pickpocket was lefi_ in the boat for two days when an' aged Chinese woman had pity on him and set him free, Before he could 9 ashore, he met the complainant coming down to the boat. The pickpocket yelled for help and a Chinese policeman took the two men to police Before the First Special District Court yesterday. Ching Ah-nyi confessed to be a pickpocket, Lee Zuwel, charged with unlawful detention, said it was his friend who. detained the culprit. The case was adjourned for a week, Three Looters Sentenced Shanghai, Apr. 12, J. L, Mazarenko, aged 45, 1. P, Karioshot, aged 29 and N, N, Perfevertzoff, "aged 33, were Gach sen-fenced to two months' imprisonment by the First Special District Court yesterday on charges of looting, The first two were said to have stolen a jar of wine from a Chinese house In the northern district' on April 9, while the third one, six boxes patent medicine from a shop in Ward Road district also on April 9,
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