Shanghai, Apr. 18, Charges of armed kidnapping were preferred against a Chinese man and woman in the First Special District Court yesterday, the couple being arrested on April 13 by Chines Police Constables 487 and. 1459, The couple, S20 Teh-kung, aged 3%, and Zoe Tsao-sz, axed 28, wore involved together with five others not yet in custody in holding & Chie ese physician at No. 13, Lane 230 Yenping Rond, for ransom, according the prosecution Among the participants in this crime who wore still at large, a coolie employed at a dairy farm, It was this coolie who sent for the" physician, who lives at 434 Ferry Road, on Tuesday evening, Once in the Yenping Road house, the phy-simian was kept a prisoner.
Continuing, the prosecution told the court that the physician was forced to write letters to his. wife, asking for ransom. The gang had asked for $4,000, but this way later reduced to $1,000. On the following Gay, the physician's wife brought '$#00 to the gang for his freedom Suspicion over the movements of the gang was aroused in the same howse, and one of the tenants called, the two. police constables, The man and woman arrested by the police were said to have rented the foam in which the physician was Kept a prisoner. The rest of the escaped, The hearing was adjourned until next week.
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