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SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1998.
REV. LALOR FREE.
KIDNAPPING CASE.
HELD PRISONER 13 DAYS IN ONE MAN FREED FOR LACK
A HOUSE.
Fook
OF EVIDENCE.
The father of the boys gavo
The kidnapping case in which two Hanyang, May 17. The Rev. J. Lalor, captured, by Chinose named Ah Fook and Choy bandita 13 days ago to-day and Lin were charged with detaining a. held for $20,000 ransom, la a free boy 10 years of age against his will, man this morning, back where he and kidnapping a younger boy under started from. He is staying at fourteen years of age, was concluded Yokiakow, on the Han River, at aboforo Major C. Willson at the branch of the Columban, Catholic Central Magistracy yesterday after- Mission with which he is connect noon. Choy Lis, who was defended by Mr. F. HL Losoby, was discharg While anxlous emissaries wereed through lack of evidence and Ah wha sentenced to, three scouring the countryside seeking a clue to the whereabouts of the monthe imprisonment on each of bandits, and while troops were on the two charges. their way, the Rev. Lalor all the while was imprisoned in a"house at Kuanyini, 15 miles east of
·n tremendous Popaowan, where flood was caused through the col- lapse of an embankment.
owned by a The house WAS Chinese, and the man ordered to guard it now fa fearing for his life, apprehensive of punishment, He is pleading that he was forced to keep the Rev, Lalor" prisoner by the bandits under penalty of losing his own life, and to prove his sincerity, has offered to join the Catholle church with his whole family. This is rather a custom ary procedure under these cir- cumstances, it is pointed out.
Refused to Ransom.
evidence of their disappearance and of offering a reward.
In reply to Mr. Losoby withers said the boys' mother was dond but he (witness) had taken a second wife. Witnoss denied that the boys bad run away from homo because of improper treatment at the hands of their stopmother.
The Chinoso informer spoke of becoming acquainted, with the salo of the boys and of informing the parents.
Answering Mr. Loseby witness aald he had not yet received his reward but expressed the hope of gotting it after the case and spoke of his intention of sharing it with hia brother.
Insufficient Evidence.
The bandits finally decided that to retrait was the better part of
After police evidence had been valour, especially with 2,500 troops on their tracks. They left their givon Mr. Losoby said he did not captive, and the frenzied guard, think anything had come out that not knowing what to do, arranged would affect the magistrate's intiana- for the Rov. Lalor to send a mestion at the Inst hearing that he sage to his mission here.
bandits were
The
The Rev. Lalor was not mis-(Mr. Losoby) had no caso to answer. was one of kidnapping. treated during his captivity. The Tho caan
not anti-foreign. The boys had made it quite clear They merely had hoped that a that they were kidnapped by Ah foreign captive would pay better Loc. Choy Lin simply travelled in ransom than a native; but learned the same train as the boys. differently. The Hanyang Catho- explanation which Choy Lin was lie Mission had definitely decided willing to give in the witness box, that under no circumstances would continuod Mr. Losoby, was that a penny tribute be paid, even if just as he was boarding the train he the life of the Rev. Lalor had to saw Ah Leo and the two boys. Ah Lee told Choy Lin that they were be sacrificed,
The reason was that if ransom. his own boya but he was so hard was paid for any foreigner, no up that he was going to try and matter whom, none would be safe sell them. When Choy Lin heard of There the true facts ho brought the boys from similar escapades. are 40 missionaries connected with back at his own expense and 'was in the St. Columban mission at Han fact out of pocket. yang, including the Rev. Lalor, and any ransom for one would pro- bably have meant the kidnapping of all, one by one.
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House Off Beaten Track...
The captive house was just off the beaten track, although near where the hunt was taking place. The bandits, it is believed, are political agents who came to this area with the revolutionary army, and who were cast aside when communism lost favour with the populace.
A sigh of relief was breathed last night when the safely of the
assured. Rev. Lalor was
The case was recalled of a similar kill napping four years ago, not so far from here, when Honan bandits seized Father Mellotto, who was GO years of age.
He was taken from place to place by the bandits, and saw them burn farms. despoil households, and pillage. Finally, when it was decided that no ransom would be paid, the leader of the criminala one day alighted from his sedan and deliberately shot the aged cap- tive: In two days he died.
DOCTORS QUARREL.
"HALF BAKED DOCTRINES” OBJECTED TO.
New York, May 25.
is Worship remarked he did not think there was sufficient evidence against Choy Lin and accordingly discharged him.
Ah Fook said that a man named Li Cheung, who claimed the boys as his own, brought them to him (defendant) saying that they wore without food and clothes. Defen- dant earned, on the tranzaction,
3 for the bigger boy and 9 for the smaller boy. Since he (defendant) had been arrested Li Cheung had absconded. "I have been let down by my friend," he added.
Defendant was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each of the two charges.
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