Failing in his attempt to burn down a mahjongg factory at North Kiangsi Road in order to heelly and politically important to revenge' the assault made on him assemble such persons who will overby the fiance of a girl who lives in the factory, Nee Tah-fah, an apprentice of the factory, was sentenced to three years and six months" imprisonment yesterday by the First Special District Court.
Nee was caught early yesterday morning after he had set fire to the stairways of the factory. He tried to elude captors by jumping from a window but he was eventually arrested and after obtaining the first aid treatment from the police hospital he was taken to the court.
He committed the crime as an act of personal revenge having lost face during a recent quarrel with the fiance of a girl named Li Tsai-chin who lives in the factory. He was allegedly assaulted and so shortly before 3 a.m. yesterday he set fire to the establishment with a can of camphor and oil. He intended to kill the girl, he later told the police.
Before the fire assumed uncontrollable proportions, however, other inmates in the factory promptly put it out. When the manager gathered together all workers and apprentices for a meeting to ascertain the cause of the trouble Nee jumped out of a first-storey window.
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