The recent raid by Yulin Road Station officers on a Jarge heroin and red pill factory at 117 Ningkuo Road had a sequel on Saturday, when five Chinese arrested in the factory were all sentenced by the First Special District Court, Two of the arrested men, the alleged manager and assistant manager respectively of the factor; were each sentenced to two yea imprisonment and fined $1,000 on the charge of being concerned in manufacturing opium substitutes.
The three other men were accused of assisting in manufacturing red pills and two of them were sent to months each, while the The prisoners maintained at the various hearings that the raided factory was owned by a Japanese and that they were employed by him at wages ranging from §20 to $30.. A Japanese witness, the owner of the factory building, however, told the Court that one of the accused leased from him a part of the building on August 14.
'The Court at the same time ordered the confiscation, of all things seized in the factory, including two electric motors of one horsepower each, five suction pumps, a large quantity of retorts, flasks,' porcelain filters, distilling apparatus, and a quantity of narcotics, in various stages of preparation,
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