The Archive · 1938

Armed Robbers Sentenced

Shanghai, July 27, Five armed robbers received a total of 81 years imprisonment among them. 'The sentences were passed on. them' by the Second Special District Court yesterday on charges of stiecessive armed crimes in the French Concession, The arrests were made after a robbery in a Chinese tie store in Route Tenant de ta Tour last month. One armed robber was shot dead on the scene when a party of the French Police responded {o an alarm, More than ten charges of armed robbery were filed against the five censed. Chang Vu-tsai and Chiang, 'Sze-lien were sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment each, while Mao Siao-lou, Ma Yueh-chao' and Shen Po-chun' received nine years' jail term,

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