Miss Wang Wen-ping, 22-year old daughter of a well known Chinese doctor with offices in the French Concession was sentenced to one voar's imprisonment yesterday in the First Special District Court together with three other accomplices, all men, two of whom also drew one year each, They were charged with at-empted kidnapping in which Miss Wang sought to carry away a male relative. The fourth accused, Tai ^hing-piao, who was charged with kidnapping in which he actually obtained $10,000 as part of the ransom money paid to his gang was sentenced to five years imprisonment.
It will be recalled that Miss Wang and other accused recently were arrested in a hotel in Vu Ya Ching Road where they plotted the crime with some capital, part of which was used for buying a motor car in which they intended to drive away their intended victim, a student living near Hart Road. They tried to kidnap him in March but a timely alarm frustrate ed the attempt. At the last hearing, the chauffeur of the intended victim testified that that he had been promised $100,000 by Miss Wang if he would help her in the crime.
The fourth accused was not only involved in Miss Wang's kidnapping attempt but al: the kidnapping of Sheng Chin-cheng. proprietor of a Chinese dairy in the western distri Mr. Sheng was kidnapped in August of last year in Columbia Road and it was said that he had paid $120,000 for regaining his freedom. Tai recently confessed saying that he had received part of the big ransom money. The motor car used by the gang was confiscated by the court yesterday.
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