Five extortioners, all natives Kiangsi, were sentenced to prison terms ranging between two years and five years and six months yesterday Ly the First Special District Court for writing. extortion letters to 9 number of shops opened by natives fof Kiangsi. "After being thrown out at jobs, Accused organized them= selves as an extortion gang in. the golo of a. "pence army." They Wrote many letters to shop managers and obtained. large sums of money from them. They were arrested only when they recently murderously ate fecked sich Fussen, manager of a hod hon at 836 Avenue Edward VI, Ifsich had refused to pay: Hsieh was chopped with an axe but Kidnappers' Receive Long Terms Shanghai, Dee. 8.
Liu, Chengshwa, a commander of we "Selferenee Corps" in the weste Gen district "an organization under the new regime and two accomplices were each sentenced (0 eight. years' imprisonment yesterday' by the First Special District Court charged with kidnapping the son of a Vice Minis-for of Railways of the new Nanking replme for where release they once thea "for. $2,000,000, 'They Were responsible for the kid-rapping. of Chao Dien-yeo on November Bin Nanyang' Road while the roiingg man was proceeding 10 school, fovead into a waiting car, which sped away "to an unknown Gestination. Tt Was only "recently at the Settlement. police ablated valuable clues leading to the arrest the trio in a Chefoo Road hotel.
through their confession, a raid was carried out in cooperation with Japanese gendarmes ina hut in the Toad area near sapote Ron, 'There the police rescued the victim but only alter a heavy' exchange" of shots during which one Japanese gendarme was wounded.
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