Death sentence was passed Zau Siao-sze-tse, 29-year old Kompo man, by the First Special District Court on January 21 on cbirges of murdering Chinese Detective 238, Liu Hsueh-cheng, iso straw hut off Haiphong and' on the night of December 14.
Sentences ranging from two to thirteen years' Imprisonment were given to" eleven others who were Folinded up by the Settlement Police together with the first accused, Six others were found not guilty.
Headed by the frst accused, the gang broke into the hut on the récetpt fof Information that a rickshaw pulle Inside the hut had picked up a cache of banknotes amounting (0 $100,000. An occupant escaped. from the -hut and approached Chinese Detective Liu for assistance, On entering the hut, the detective was overpowered by the gang. The first accused was said to have seized the detective's service pistol and shot him three times inthe head, The victim died instantly.
Five days after the rime, a police party led by Detective Sergeant J, W. Sanbrook raided a hut in Mokanshan Road and other places, arresting the first accused and other members of the gang. Four pistols and 27 rounds of ammunition seized in the aids were coniiseated by the Court, The death sentence. was believed be. the first ever given by the Settlement Court since the outbreak of hostilities in Shanghai. "The ae-Jeused did not Mle notice of appeal 'The rickshaw puller, who was supposed to have been' enriched by $100,000, has not yet been located. The cache containing the fortune was said to have been left behind by passenger, itussian Sentenced for Burglary Arkady Houdiukoft, @6-year old Russian, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment by the First. Speciat [Court on Jan. 21 on charges of stoaling $100 Chinese currency: and. $100 Yen from the home of Mr, R, W. Roche of the Standard-Vacuum' Oh Ca, at 200 Vu Yuen Road. 'The jenine was reported to have' been perpetrated on January 0, When arrested, the necysed had about $20 in his pocket, Chinese Suspected of Kidnapping The SIN. Police made an applica tion to the First Special District Court Jon Jan, 22 for the detention of -Li Jul-kyung, unemployed, ay he was strongly suspected of being involved the kidnapping of 'a Chinese, 2 bank, employee, near Jessticld. Road, Jon Fridsy aftertioon, 'The application Iwas granted and the suspect will appear again in court on January' 29, History' in the
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