The Archive · 1935

Waylaid by Armed Men

Gong Sch-sing left his home in Chemulpo Road shortly before 8 am, jon December 12 in a private rickshaw with his sister, aged 16. In Liaoyang Road, near the school where both jate pupils. the rickshaw was halted two Chinese, one of whom had a pistol in his hand. The men [intimidated the rickshaw puller and the two youngsters, pointing the gun Jat the girl when she showed signs. lof crying out, and then pulled the: boy into a waiting hire-car, belong-jing to the Lee Lee Garage.

As the crime has been reconstruct led. the kidnappers forced the chautflour to take them to Chapel by Ward Road. They turned into. Chtngshan oad, apparently, and made a circle Jabout the northern district until they reached Amherst Avenue where they murdered the chauffeur. It is be-

Tieved that one of the gang put on the driver's cap and drove the car ack to Yangiszepoo. The victim of the kidnapping, it is thought, was] confined in some _hidi in (Chapel. The hire-car was abandoned in Hailar Road, near Chaoufoong Road, and found by the police at 1 Jotlock the same afternoon. On the: Moor of the tear space lay the [chauffeur's cap.

The unfortunate driver's body was discovered following the receipt of letter by the Lee Lee Garage saying that it had been placed in a field off JAmberst Avenue." The letter is now jin the hands of the Police. The body twas taken to the Public Morgue in Fearon Road, for the inquest.

'Once the terror of the south China coos', Sue Nakawura, the 27-year-old Japerese mistress of an erstwhile: Formosan pirate chief, now is in the Shanghai Japanese consular gaol, awaiting deportation. Sue arrived last Wednesday from Foochow, where she was arrested, and she was ent on the RIK. s. Tatsuta Maru, for Yokohama en route to her native village in Hokkaido, Appointed a primary school teacher when aged 18, Sue eloped with a [Chinese travelling salesman and made. her" way to Foochow, where she shifted "her affections to Chen Pai-lin, a Formosan-born pirate with Nesdquarters in. Fooehing-hsien, With him she cruised the south China coast, raiding coastal shipping and seaboard towns. "Her expert marksmanship Jand adroitness won her the respect fof the other buccaneers, who regarded Ther, of as the chief's mistress, but one of their leaders, At the height of her career, it was Sue who distributed the spoils and her Sudgment never was questioned.

Las: autumn, feeling homesick. she obtained $25,000 and went to Hok-kido, travelling by way of Hong: kong and Formosa, but in the suring this year she returned to China fand stopped in Shanghai on her way south. Arriving in the Fukien capital, she found her band had been broken up. by Chinese Government troops. and that Chen was reduced to living jin slams, in constant fear of being arrested. Sue attempted to reassemble the scattered members of the band, but failed, and finally was Jarresied by the Japanese consular police in November.

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