A. Chinese girl "appeared in the Second Special District Court yesterday as a plaintiff and told the story of how she was kidnapped ino village in Sungkiang last year and Torced to marry a young gangster, who has been arrested by the French police together with his father also alleged to be a gang leader, and how her mother was brutally killed by the former accused by fung three shots. Although her story was denied the accused, the judge remanded both accused in custody and hearing will be resumed on January 12.
The girl Ling Shin-hwa was one of the two girls who recently slipped away from their homes In the Confession and informed the French police that they had been forced to marry the two sons of the leader of gangsters, Li Yung-kwan, alleging that the' gangster father and sons had committed all sorts of crimes in Sungkiang and become notorious all villages there. They were charged with arson, robbery, Ikidnapping, and adultery.
The French police at once raided the "house In Siccawei where the alleged gangsters who recently seeretly arrived in Shanghai were hiding and arrested. and one of his sons. The other son had escaped before the police arrived. In court yesterday. one of the victimized girls said that she was kidnapped by the family ong of robbers and forced to marry tone of the sons named Li Chia-chou, the accused. In spring of this year when her mother sled to neftite with him for the purpose of settling the affair, young Ti was alleged to have pushed the aged woman into 8 cave and shot her dead. She eried Toudly when she told her mother's story.
'The accused dented the story, state ing that he was employed as the man charge of steam launch but the girl referred the Judge to villagers Sungkiang and' insisted that her story was authentic, She said that young Li used to be a salt smuggler but later became a robber victimizing numerous people under the name of guerilla unit leader, The "North-China Daily News" on the Radio News is broadcast twice daily on Station XMHD at 12.45 noon and 9 p.m.
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