"Two suspected extortioners, Lo Chia-hwa and Shih Ho-chuen, were brought before the First Special District Court yesterday and charged with attempted extortion in which a school principal was the intended victim. The accused were remanded in custody and hearing was postpone ed for a week.
It was revealed in court that the intended victim, Chang Kuo-chuan, is director of an educational relief bureau for the poor in Room 519, Pootung Residents Guild in Avenue Edward YN near! Avenue Foch. Chang collected large sums of money from the public to support his school and the two suspects saw the chance for extortion. g to write defamatory articles alleged irregularities in Chang's contribution campaign ior his school, the suspected extort tioners were said to have written a letter to Chang asking him to meet them and to talk over the matter.
When the school principal refused io answer, one of the accused was alleged to have paid him a visit, demanding $2,000 so that the defematory articles should not be published. There was no payment made,
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