While two Chinese were sentenced to death last winter by the First Special District Court for murdering their father in the Settlement by electrocution, two other Chinese aged about 20, are being detained by the Second Special District Court on suspicion that they have instigated the murder or robbery of their father in the French Concession in order to obtain his money.
These two latter youths were arrested on Thursday by the French police soon after an sault had been made on their father who lives in a room on the eighth floor of ihe Chinese Y.M.C.A. in Boulevard de Montigny. The assault was made by two other youths well dressed in foreign clothes. One of them arrested and it was through the alleged confession made by this arrested youth that the police later arrested the two sons of the victim, Mr. Wang Kung-wen, a rich "Shantung merchant.
It was alleged by the arrested lad that they went to the Chinese Y.M.CA. to rob Mr. Wang in order to enable his two sons to get his money and that they did so at the tigation of the s Losing no time, the French police soon arrested the two us at a Concession Wi Min-shing and Wang io, the arrested sons, who have received their education in Shanghai, were brought before the Concession court yesterday on a writ of detention after brief questioning. The French police ref ned from framing charges against them, Hearing was postponed for 10 days.
It will be recalled that two young men went to Mr. Wang's here they were received by intended victim. Producing an lion pistol, one of them pointed the fake gun at his heart while the other tried to bind him with a long rope. Discovering that the was an imitation one, the victim screamed for help. whereupon servants of the dormitory rushed to the scene of the trouble in time to arrest the youth armed. with the fake made to 4
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