Ling Yang-sung was sentenced to death on Aug. 7 by the First Special District Court on a charge of robbing Zung Choh-zang, manager of a cleans ing agency, of $800, In Penang Road, near Gordon Road, on July' 10, and and than killing him by shooting him with a pistol, Ling was arrested several weeks after the highway robbery.
When' brought before the Couirt, Ling admitted he was present during the robbery, but maintained that only one of the veral men concerned in med and he was a ge. An eye-witness of however, said the man who shot Zang wore a short jacket of Cantonese silk, and the prisoner ad~ mitted that he was the only one of the gang who wore a jacket of black Cantonese silk,
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