Three Chinese mothers wept in the First Special District Court yesterday when they identified the clothes once worn by their sons who were recently kidnapped and strangled to Geath by three kidnappers, all of whom confessed to the crime The clothes were pawned by the kidnappers after the strangulation and later redeemed by the police. Judgment will be given next Tuesday.
Both the police prosecutor and re-natives of the- unferiunate. children asked for the most severe punishment for the tric, two of whom were, until recently, connected with a tailor's shop in Yates Road. They kidnapped the son of the manageress of the shop while the boy was in a Weihaiwei Road school Two other boys followed them innocently. They had to kill all the children in Chapei before demanding a ransom, because the boys all knew them well, it was revealed in court.
Police evidence again hinted that the gambling habit forced the leader of the gang to commit the crime. He obtained the lion's share of $3,000 paid by the worried parents, He once tried to borrow some money from the manageress but when his request was turned down, he plotted the crime in the most brutal manner.
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