Shanghai, Jan, 31 sinst_a mounting mass of evi= dence produced against him by the Settlement police through heir Muni cipal Advocate, Mr. 'T. Y. Chang, former "badlands" gambling house partner, Wang Shou-chang, was sen-fenced to life imprisonment yesterday by the First Special District Court ith one murder and rupted murders in which desperately to get rid of a fivals in order to have things his way.
ie Was until recently a partner of the Yung Yuen gambling house which has been doing good business but Wang soon could not see eye to eye with his partner, Chang Mei-Kong. In March of last year, he hired men to try fo kill Kay Chi ken, an able assistant of his partner. Wang himself participated in the shooting In which ho fired several shots but Kao, alli ugh wounded, recovered Inter to implicate him. Some time later, Wang and his men waylaid his partner, Chang Mel-kong, in Tifeng Road and made no mistake in disposing of him, As if this was not, enough, Wang planned also to kill Chang's brother, Chang Hsin-mel, but then the police stepped in and arrested several men Who were subsequently convicted in the court, "Wang soon realized that it would be better for him to leave Shanghai and so lo went to Hong Kong, only to be caught later.
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