Sentences of death, life, twelve years' and fifteen years' imprisonment were passed by the First Special District Court yesterday on four Chinese convicted on charges of armed kidnapping and murder of Mr, Hong Yi-shing owner of an iron foundry, last August.
The victim was kidnapped in Hongkew while he was riding in a private rickshaw, Taken to Kiangwan, he was eventually shot dead by the gang at the outbreak of hostilities, Settlement Police, who worked on the case, made first arrests several weeks ago, Through them, the leader of the gang was located at the Ward Road Jail where he was serving twelve years'. imprisonment on charges of armed robbery, The man, Ying Sung-ching, got death sentence, The three others who were sentenced yesterday, were: Chen Chllu, life imprisonment - Tsiang Chin-ju, thirteen years, and Chen Wei-chia, fifteen years, Following the arrests of the ae cused, a police party set out for the war-torn Kiangwan where the remains of the victim were found buried under a shack,
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