The Archive · 1939

Bag-Snatcher Sentenced

Shanghai. Feb. 4, Zan Te-ming was given a sentence of fen months imprisonment in the First Special District Court yesterday morning on charge of having snatched the bags of two forelyn women, According to the evidence, {nye down. Bubbling, Well Road near Hardoon Road on the afternoon ut January 28. Zun managed to run Away, however, until Sergeant Webb ave chase and brought him to the Bubsting Well police station where the accused a bag from Just one hour previously and having hidden it beneath a comin on a vacant Tot off Avenue Haig, Delective-Sergeant Deaville, who was put in charge of the ease, managed {9 locate the other victim, Mrs. L. Karavaefl, by a photograph which "he found in the bag. The matcher pleaded _quilly whereupon sentence was given.

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