see Sees Sea fore the First Special District Court esterday on suspicion that he and his men had robbed a silk merchant a Wusthof cash and sie, kidnapped and also his wife. The merchant tras killed Tater but, his wife was
showed kindness. Hearing w Feloased by. an aged kidnapper who poned for a week. A hotel assistant was also Hou was seen on August 2 when he was entering a hotel in Hoopeh Road. He was seen by no other than the wife of the murdered merchant Hsieh Ab-shun. She had him arrested, The wife told the court that_afler being released she came to Shanghai and that she made no mistake in identifying Hou as one of the kidnappers who carried away her husband on March 25 of this year.
She alleged that Hou and his men first stole more than $700 in notes and about $1,000 worth of silk from liber husband in an armed robbery. committed in their home in Wusih and later kidnapped her husband. On March 28, she said, she was asked with the kidnappers and when she reached a certain place she saw her husband. Her husband was shot dead in her presence and she herself was also shot near the The kidnappers were about to bury her alive but an aged kidnapper re~ eased her. She then fled to Shang-hal and met Hou by chance. She showed her bullet wound in the forehead. Hou told the court how: ever, that it was the Japanese. sponsored militiamen who "executed" her husband as a gangster trying shift the responsibility entirely.
Russians Acquitted in Fraud Case W. A. Kirk and N. 'M. Dros, Russians, were acquitted yesterda; fof the charge of fraud framed against bane ty te paul in the. First Special District Court in connection with the case in which they wer alleged to have defrauded a number of European refugees of money in the forms of "key money" and advance rent amounting to less than $10,000 promising to supply cheap houses in the Wayside district.
Although both of them were quitted on the fraud charge Kirk was found guilty of intimidation and senenced to six months' imprisonment or an alternative of $2 per one day's imprisonment.
While pressing for payment of advance rents, intimida-Mien was alleged to have been resorted, fief He was charged with robbery te Central police on July 11, after some complainants had reported to in the First Speciat the police their disatistaction of the yesterday and while he readily con-arrangements made by them as re-fessed to the crime judgment was reserved for a week.
He also. sponsible persons of the Canadian and Oriental Exporters frankly admitted that he had gambled Road, which signed contracts with too much and in order to make good many foreign refugees promising to hhis toss he had committed the crime. five them cheap houses in Tongshan He was arrested on the afternoon of Road. When the refugees were asked August 1 by the Sinza police after an to pay more and more rents while assistant of the Lao Feng Hsiang no houses were ready for occupation Silver Workshop, at 727 Sinza Road, they began to suspect the real in-who followed him, had tipped off tention of the Russians. two constables nearby. He ran out with a gold bracelet and two gold its which he stole from the shop
which he borrowed from a boy.
the, point of lis imitation pistol of the alert shop assistants also ran out secing that he was carrying an The defence lawyer, Mr. Paul 1 Premet, contended in court however, that his clients made no mistakes, explaining that the charge didn't constitute a prima facie case since the date on which the houses were to be completed was August 1, His clients still had time to. bulld the houses according to the date men-Nioned in the contracts and there was no fraud, Ex-Puppet Officials Sentenced Two former offelats' of the' now Shanghai, Aug. 5.
closed "Reconstruction 'Socloly, Jpurpet political organisation' in Chapel, were sentenced, by the First Special District Court yesterday to three" years" imprisonment. charged with forcing a person to do what is 'Rot within his obligation, 'They: were found to have intimidated a. former asks Eh' inde of the los organization foreing him to pay Which they contended to, be" the ack salaries, The offence was committed on August' 3- in. the Woo. Kung Hotel Foochow Road where u's wile who went fo. see What was happening, liber husband, was robbed of hee goto ring. "She reported to. the Genteal police that she had been victim of robbery but after the two men had been arrested the police obtained a clear picture of the trouble and pro: secured accordingly.
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