Shanghai, Dec. 20.
Tang Yung-ching who was recenliy brought before the Second Special District Court and charged with murder in connection with the killing six years ago of his alleged accomplice, an opium—smuggler. following a dispute over the question of distribution of opium money has now been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment, Tang has signified his wish to appeal against the Judgment.
Tang, it will be recalled, was trapped unexpectedly on October 23 when travelling in a junk from Pootung where he had been hiding, We was discovered to be the instigator of the crime by the wife of tone of the sentenced men who rowed the boat. The alert junk woman kept quiet unfit her boat reached the French Bund where she told her story to the French police who effected Tang's arrest 'The junk woman's husband, Tao Yung-chang, was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment long ago, charged with the murder, and since ther husband's imprisonment the woman has been rowing boats to earn her living, Charged with the same crime, another man named Chang-Yuan was sentenced to 13_years' imprisonment, The murder was committed inn house in Rue des Deux Republiques where the victim Tsao Ah-kwong was playing mah longe with some friends on June 28, 1033, Tang and the two other sentenced men broke into the room and opened fre, killing Tsao outright, They escaped but Tao and Hsu were arrested later. "Tt was revealed in court that all of them were members of an opium smuggling gang operating along the French Bund and that they were angry with their victim because he had "squeezed" $3,000 opium money.
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