DRIVER KILLED BY KIDNAPPERS OF A BOY
Body of Strangled Man Found by Roadside: Youth Still Missing: Old Gang Suspected The body of the Chinese chauffeur used by the kidnappers of Oong Sehsing, M4-year-old son of a wealthy [Cantonese pawnbroker in Yangtsze-Poo, to whisk the youth away. in Liaoyang Road last Thursday morn-ling and take him to some unknown iding-place, was found by the Settlement Police on Sunday morning clump of bushes off Amherst [Avenue near the junction of Lincoln Avenue.
The man, Er Yi-ching, 35 years old, Jemplayed by the Lee Lee Garage, had been "strangled to death after: his hands had been tied behind his back "with twine and a loop. run round his neck. It is thought he was killed on Thursday last, shortly after the kidnapping. in order to provide the boy's abductors with a vehicle in which they could. convey their prey to their hiding-place with-fut attracting too much attention. IGrass discovered under the nails of his clutched hands indicated that the chauffeur was murdered approximate:
at the spot where his body. was found and where he" apparen:= ly put up a terrific struggle against his captors.
The Kidnapped boy is still in the Jnands of the gang which spirited him away and it ig believed that he was Jabducted by members of the same zang which seized him in Novem ber. 1882, in Chemulpo Road and {took him to Kiangwan, where they were forced to surrender him to the Chinese Police after an exchange of shots. Through a misunderstanding it was reported on Saturday that the had been released. The boy who Iwas actually liberated by kidnappers was Ho Tau-sing, 18 years old, a son lof Dr. Ho Shih-tseng. a former President of the Shanghai Provisional Court. This. youth was kidnapped on November 28 in Great Western Road. lad to Kiangwan, forcing the chaff four of the car to drive under penalty lof death. It was when the chauffeur refused to go any further that a shot was put through his back, causing hhis death, and the attention of the Chapei Police called to the kidnaping. 'The Chinese Police shot. it out with the abductors, one police sergeant being wounded, and' as a Fesult the boy was liberated, Two lof the gang were chased on foot over fields and captured. They were subsequently "sentenced In the Chinese curt.
No negotiations have been started by the kidnappers with the family of the boy.
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