Shanghai, Aug. 15.
Found guilty of attempted murder, Chen Yung-ki has been sentenced by the First Special District Court to eight years' imprisonment in connection with the shooting of Mr. Chin Sao-yi, a lawyer and concurrently editor' of the "Shun Pao," which crime was committed at his "home at 38 Lane 36 Myburgh Road Sune 17 of this year.
Chen has! also been deprived his civil It will be recalled that the shooting occurred at Mr. Chin's residence and office at about 10 am. when Chen, dressed in a long silk gown, visited him on the pretext of con: sulting him on legal questions. As. he was talking with Mr. Chin he suddenly produced his pistol and fired at the latter, slightly wounding him in the side. When the assailant tried to shoot again his weapon jammed. He ran out, but was arrested by the police not far away from the Chin residence, At the police station Chen told the emeers that "he had. shot" Mr. Chin at the instigation of a friend, Wang Min-deli, and as an act of revenge. Wang's father was once Involved_in a egal dispute referred to Mr, Chin and for some reason. other" Wang began to hate the lawyer newspaperman. Mr. Chin told newspapermen that during the ast five years he had never dealt with sucha case and that thought that there must be another' motive behind the crime.
Officially there has been no revelation as to the exact motive behind the crime and when the last hearing was held on August 12 it was held in-camera,
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