Shanghai, Feb. 20.
Excepting one woman, all the other six women and men charged in the First Special District Court with kidnapping Shanghai children for sale in south China ports, mostly in Amoy, were sentenced to heavy prison "forms yesterday, ranging from 12 to 15 years. Ssu 'Teh-san, the ringleader of the gang, drew 18 years and s0 did his chief woman accomplice, Mrs. Chen Changs20. All of the' gang were arrested many weeks ago in Amoy where the Set~ tlement police have rescued no less. than 20 kidnapped Shanghai children. They were also each sentenced to pay'a fine of $1,500.
It will be recalled that this 1s the child-kidnapping gang discovered by the Settlement police here several months ago, when the Kashing Road police found a suspicious "shop" in their district. The shop ostensibly did business selling sundry goods but upon close examination, the ofoers found numerous suits of children's clothes. Several kidnapped children were found and their original clothes were found to have been changed. Later, photographs and permits al. lowing traMickers to go to outports wath the children were found.
At first, the case did not appear to be a big one, but through the confessions made by the few persons arrested here, it war brought to ight that, no less than 100 children had been Kidnapped and sold. Worl. ing relentlessly, the police eventual. ly" went to Amoy where several more kidnapped children, then possessed by rich families, were found and brought back to Shanghai. The Police are stil continuing investiga-
Took Girl: Coat in Cinema 'Shanghai, Feb, 21 Another crook, who preyed upon members of the humorous girl guide societies in Shanghai was sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment. yester~ day' by the First Special District Court yesterday.
Lu started his criminal career February 10 when he summoned Miss Yeo Li-tseng from the Fee Ling Guide Society in Yunan Road to the Paradise Ballroom. They danced and later went to cinema but taking the chance offered by darkness he stole the girl's coat valued at $300. He was arrested with ease in a_hotel and the coat was r-covered, "During his detention in the court, however, the police found out that he was sponsible for another similar crime this time victimizing Miss Lo Fang of another guide society in Kwangsi Road. She was summoned to a hotel where she was stripped of her coat and long gown.
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