Extortion Nine sı ted extortioners were brought before ihe First Special District Court yesterday in eonitection with two letters received by a real estate merchant named Tang Ssu-chien who lives in Sinza Road. They were arraigned before Judge Chiang on a writ of detention and the hearing was postponed pending further investigations. It was revealed by the police prosseutor that by posing as guerilla leaders seme people have repeatedly written extortion letters to Mr. Tang. The intended victim at first tried to keep things hushed up, but a few days ago he received another letter in which two bullets were contained. It demanded $850 under threat of death.
He the matter to the reported Gordon Road police who first arrested two of the suspects on Wednesday while they were trying to go to Mr. Tang's residence to obtain money by appointment, They were therefore trapped; and through their alleged confession the other suspects, one of them a woman, were later arrested in a French Concession hotel.
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