'Tsang Yoong-oen, aged 38, nearly ight feet in height, who was arrested fon Jan. 19 by the mareotic section of the S. Bf. Police in House No. 80, Lane' No. 97, Haining Rood "for smoking "heroin, was sentenced (0 {twelve years" imprisonment in. the First Special District Court on Jan. 20 when he was charged with violating the provisional regulations. governing the punishment of narcotic offenders t'took the combined efforts of 0 foreign detective and Chinese ofoers
an unsuesessut attempt to escape when aube the Slant ade who made the police entered. his room, So huge was Tsang that when Settlement officers arrested "him they found that their handeufls barely circled his wrists, "The 38 year old alleged drug. addict thus resented a difficult problem to the Settlement Police, but it was solved by the Joint efforts of three officers who were determined to live up to the reputation of getting their man With his two immense hands pushing aside the officers, the man attempted to leave, but'the trio hung conto him. In the struggle. in which one officer was knocked about and had hig finger injured, the detectives were found 150 packages of heroin.
"The man is believed to have broken into an empty house and made hi quarters there. A badly torn mal anda lamp were the only other articles found in the room.
Zee Pan-kung, who was found in the room with the huge addict, was charged on Jan. 20 with possession of heroin and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. His sentence, however, was suspended for two years.
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