Shanghai, Mar. 31.
Convicted of extortion in which the accused posed as detectives attached to the antisnarcotie department of the Shanghai 'Municipal Police, Wu Pi-nton and Wang Chang-keng were each sentenced to one year and two months' "imprisonment. yesterday by the First Special District Court, The crime dates back to March 21 when they broke into a Chinese residence In Lane 58 Amoy Rood and extorted $25 from the relatives of an aged woman who is alleged to be an opium smoker. They produced a letter purporting to have been written by an informant saying that there was an opium smoker in the house and threatened to arrest the woman if money was not forthcoming.
They. were unlucky, however, because when they were escaping after obtaining the money they were met by a rear detective near" the front door.
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