"Sidney Street" Shooting Eighteen robbers who engaged the police in a night long gun duel in the course of an armed robbery in the Yung Ta Cotton Hong off Shanse Road near Peking Road on February 1 were to prison terms ranging from two years to 12 years by the First Special District Court yesterday. The 10 pistols and 45 rounds of ammunition seized from the gang were confiscated by the court. Three men were declared not guilty and released.
Eight of the men drew 12 years each. They are Soong Tze-ching, Wang Pao-hsiang, Wang Hui-min, Wu Shao-yn, Li Ching-chao, Chen Chin-san and Oon Lao-chin. Three otHer men drew eight, nine and 10 years respectively. The rest of the gang received lighter sentences including three five-year prison terms.
It will be recalled that the sentenced men, all coming from the bad. lands, engaged the police in one of the fiercest gun battle ever entered into the police record. They were robbing but before they could escape a large party of officers arrived and inevitable shooting occurred in which two robbers were killed outright and One foreign officer was wounded. While severa] of the men were arrested red-handed, the others were caught later.
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