Shanghai, July 10.
Found guilty of kidnapping, No Mon and" Wong Koh-sen were each sentenced {o five years' imprisonment yesterday by the First Special District Court in connection with the abduction on June 25 of Li Chi-vong. an employee of the China Trans: portation Go. in Hangchow.
Self-styling themselves as members of the "Peace and. National Recon: struction Army," accused went to Li room in the Sun Sun Hotel and forced him into a waiting car. While they were being driven away in the hire ear toa Vu Yuen Road house they: were intercepted by the police and arrested, Defrauding Refugees Two Russians named I," Frantott Shanghai, July 10.
and' A, Stnovoy were sentenced {ve months" imprisonment or. the alternative of paying $3 per day for five months by the First Special District Court yesterday, found guilty of otrauding German etugees by Hast Ing false. cortiNeates of employment 80. that. they could obtain" landing Permits for relatives. 'The crime was {rst discovered when Stanovoy com= plained to the police that his partacr, the other accused, had attempted extort money from him, threatening him with death, Tnvestigations made bby' the police revealed the fact that they were doing illegal business. by Issuing false employment certificate Telephone Ca, Men Sentenced Bioven former employees of tne Shanghai, July 10,
Shanghai Telephone Company received Sentences of fines ranging from $250 $1,500 In the First Special District Court yesterday when found guilty of defrauding the firm by attempting to contract illegal transfers and stalling unauthorized Attings.
It took several weeks for the police and company 0 investigate the tele phone Packet which has been in existence ever since the shortage of telephones resulting from the increased population demanding this! public utility. It was in May that the racket was dissevered, when a telephone company employee wa: asked by the manager of a dispenser; to obtain another telephone for the sum of $500.
Although the employee got off with a suspended sentence the ease in: dicated that many people were pre pared to offer high prices for stallation of telephones. The eleven men had been working under a aystem and by employing contact men, they did business privately to their own advantage, Theft of Medicines Shanghai, July 11, Eight Chinese, one of them woman, were brought before the Firat Special District Court yesterday fon a writ of detention on the sus pleion that they might have been Involved in the" theft of large quantities of medicine amounting to about $60,000 from the Hoffmann LaRoche Company, 255 Peking Road. Police arrested the suspects following the receipt of information from a representative of the firm hoging that systematic pilfering of medicines had been going, on. was revealed in court that a shipment of medical supplies from Switzerland recently arrived here aboard the s. Conte Rosso. Some, eases of these medicines, were imaged and about $50,000 worth of medicines missing. The cargo might have been pilfered aboard the ship Fevealed some traces of the missing. medicines. One suspect way first arrested and further investigat resulted inthe other suspects. bein arrased, Shanghai, July 10.
using appeal was made yesterday afternoon in the First Special District Court by Ate, N. T, Kolesnichenko, Jawyer for the five Russians ryed with no less than 18 burg and thefts, asking for leniency tind suspended Sentences, explaining, that his clients were ted astray by: the bad social environment in Shang ha said that the accused came ood families and are educated, therefore they should not be ike other criminals and that they had promised to repent, The:
though much moved by his Jong statement, did not appear ready to show Ienieney, however, announeing that he would give judgment on Suly 16, Judge Fu said that he would find it hard to show leniency in the face of the amounting mass of evidence against the accused pointing out the cextensiveness of their crimes. hinted that the most severe punishment for a chief offender in such eases would be more than seven years' imprisonment, He could give consideration to suspended sentences only when criminals would receive prison terms shorter than tivo years, The lawyer defended the first, second and fifth accused, while the third and fourth accused were said by the police prosecutor to have been involved in a few cases or in receiv ing stolen articles, The five accused are Leonid Fedin, his brother, Victor Fedin, Maryen Pavlov, A, Merculof? and V. Gravetsky, The charges volve more than $45,000, Two of the accused were charged with breaking into the apartment of Mr, Neubourgh, since deceased, 1477 Bubbling Well Road, in January, 1999, and stealing a revolver, money and jewellery totalling $225 in value, and breaking into 126 Tsongehow Road and stealing a radio, fountain pens, a tafet set and jewellery of 2 {olal' value of $3,115 the property of Mr. K, Schlinke.
Other charges preferred against the prisoners included breaking into the apartment of Mr. Bazar at 1074 Bubbling Well Road on January 9, this year and stealing a radio, money and valuables of a total value of $800; breaking into the apartment of tr, Lengyel at 278 Hardoon Road on January 19, last, and stealing money, clocks. a camera and jewellery; break: ing into apartment 1-A, 978 Bubbling Well Road on January' 20 and steal ing a radio, watches and tubes to the value of §210; theft of clocks and instruments belonging to Mr. Lanter from 34 Wayside Road on' January, 25, last; theft of silver candle-sticks and a silver sweet dish valued at)
'$457 from apartment four, house 21, Jane 150, Tifeng Road, on February 17, last; breaking into the apartment of Mr, Kedina at 651 Weihaiwei Rood fon February 19, and stealing a fountain pen and silverware, 'The remaining charges were made up as follows: breaking into the apartment of Mr, Willer at 186 Hart} Road in March' last and stealing silverware and clothing valued $2,400; stealing a Fist car from 2 Jane on Bubbling Well Road March 8 last, The car bearing! Hence No. 11793 valued at $3,000 is the property of Mr, R, Price, Stealing} 'a Ford car licence No, 1658 valued at $5,000 the property of Dr. W, Rosenberg on March 9: stealing a car valued at $8,500 the property of Mr. Ting Shu-vang outside 65 West End Gardens, Vu Yuen Road: theft of gasoline from a gasoline station at Amherst Avenue on May 3, last, the property of the Asiatic Petroleum Company: theft of a Fiat ear licence No, 112 valued at $7,500 the property of Mr, A, Rayer on May 4, last outside 1054 Vu Yuen Road: bee skins into the apartment of Ate. Kopoka May 18 last and stealing jewellery valued at $3425; breaking "into the apartment of Mr. Kneale apartment 4, house 45, Lune 150, Tifeng Road, oh June 21,'Iast and stealing a radio set, jewellery and clothing valued at $600 and breaking into a garage on Columbia Road on June 24, last, and stealing a ear valued at $8,000 the property of Me, E, Smith,
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