Sentences Passed on Gang Who Stole $135,000
Long prison terms were meted out yesterday by the First Special District Court to 14 members of a robbery gang which was responsible of the biggest armed robbery of the year in which the Chin Ju Native Bank, 84 Seward Road, was victimized on the night of October 12 to the extent of $135,000 in Chinese and thi at carried on by News World Photos for a period of eighteen months from the date of a deed dis sol lying partnership between himself and defendant.
This was granted with $10 damages, with cos In the deed, plaintiff stated, Gordon had agreed not to compete vith the World News Photos for a period of eighteen months, but he had not fulfilled the conditions of the contract and had been taking pictures which were of a sim nature to those taken by News Phot Evidence on behalf of th e plaintiff was given by Mr. D. A. Ni neville, his partner, who stated in Court that he was a professional photographer and that prior to May last year he had been an insurance man for some 15 years, (The full text of the judgment wi appear in the "North China lorald" on December 13) foreign currencies.
'The ringleader, Tai Ken-sen, drew 12 years. Vu Ah-ken, the private rickshaw coolie empli ed by the manager of the bank who instigated the crime was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment.
These two men were Exchange Shop Looted By Armed Bandits Money and jewellery were taken by th ree robbers at the points of two also convicted on four additional p; stols before daylight terday charges of armed robbery Shen Pa-ling and Chen Vu-ch! were each sent to prison for 10 years ' while Woo Beng-chen drew nine years.
Seven years' imprison: ment was the lot of four more men. mi erning at a cigarette and exchange sh op, 175 Singapore Road. The total value of the loot was about $100.
The robbers ere fired. escaped, and no shots The remaining two males were} sentenced to five years and six months respectively Three women drew six months each charged with transporting firearms for the gang.
The complainants have filed a civi? claim for $28,339.98, some $47.000 o: the stolen money having g been recovered. The civil suit will be heard separately.
The robbery was committed by more than 10 men admitted by the sentenced rickshaw coolie.
Several members of the gang are therefore still at large. Five of them were first arrested by a raiding party led by Detective Sergeant S. Craig, of Wayside Police Station.
Officers attached to the West Hongkew Police Station arrested the rest of the gang later.
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