A four-year prison term was meted out yesterday by the First Special District Court to Wei Yushan, watchman of Dur Fu Alley in Avenue Foch, in connection with the kidnapping of Li Wen-iron chain factory owner, was committed late on August 29 in front of the alley. The victim regained his freedom by fleeing from a house in the Western District where he was imprisoned.
It was revealed in court that a hawker employed by the kidnappers to look after Li was won over by the victim's promising to give him money and a job. Li fled with the hawker, who was supposed to have guarded him against escaping. Through the confession made by the hawker it was ascertained by the police that the watchman had also plotted with kidnappers.
Li was kidnapped at about 11.30 p.m, while he was returning home in a motor car, having visited a concubine in the French Concession. When he was nearing the alley in which his residence is located, several kidnappers rushed up and forced him into a car which sped away to an unknown destination During his detention, the kidnappers asked" him to pay $250,000.
Five suspected kidnappers who were arrested on Thursday while they were, it was alleged, trying to kidnap K. Z. Yue, local business man, from his home at 640 Connaught Road, were remanded in custody by the court pending further investigations. The court was told that the men intended to kidnap Yue and to
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