The Archive · 1940

Kidnapper Sentenced

Shanghai, May 25.

Wang Hsiang-hsien, an armed kidnapper, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment yesterday by the First Special District Court for faking part in the kidnapping in January" of this year of Huang Chicwen, a silt merchant who lives in Seymour Road. Tt was revealed in court that Wang was connected with political "administration the "badlands" when he committed the crime with several other men, who are still at large.

They carried Huang away in a car and {ried to demand a ransom alleging that Huang was a guerilla leader. Huang later" escaped and returned home safely. Wang was arrested many days later by the Louza police and he readily" confessed to having taken part in the kidnapping although he said that he rat not the master mind behind the

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