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“MURDERED WITH EXTREME SAVAGERY."

RECONSTRUCTION OF CRIME FOLLOWING

GRUESOME DISCOVERY.

KIDNAPPERS BREAK FAITH AFTER PAYMENT OF RANSOM,

How a young Chinese, belonging to a well-known Hong Kong family, was dous to death under tragic oiroumstances at the hands. of a gang of kidnappers, was revealed for the first time yesterday by Mr. T. N. Hazelrigg, who prossouted before Mr. E. 1, Wyn- "ne. Jones, ons Taang Sau Foo, who was charged with murder..

The full story of the negotiations between the family of the victim and the kidnappers, by which it is alleged that the latter treacherously obtained 35,300 while the victim was alleged to have been tortured and ultimately killed, is contained in the outline. of the case for the prosecution by, the Crown Solicitor.

MYSTERIOUS LETTERS AND MESSAGES.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1932.

was seen by the father and the dianaman, büş "the "father-in-law of the murdered man who was the only one who could speak Hakka, a dialoot which the defendant un- derstood, was out. "AB that visit to the shop the defendant handed a. Further letter to the father in which the demand was lowered to 15,000 and the writer spoke of the necessity for payment before Chin- ese New Year and saith that if the money was not forthcoming, the kidnapped man would be dealt with

by sharp knives,''

A further interview took place

at about 7 o'clock the same after-

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DEAN INGE SPEAKS PLAINLY TO

YOUNG PEOPLE.

MORAL TEMPTATIONS AND HOW TO MEET THEM.

SEX A SMALL PART IN ANY SANE

LIFE.

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The physical templations of thwarting our natural instinet! young man.

Dangers of go-as-you-please moral. ity.

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Concerning boys and young men, the Dean „gid:

Why should we starve one appetita.

rather than another?

"We must go to St. Paul for an answer. He does not say much

in a way, which would make him furious if someone else behaved in that way to his own sister.

Married LovE.

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"Some young people are hardly troubled by physical temptations at all. I have known perfectly normal "St. Paul says that it is impious men who were hardly conscious of to profane the sacrament of mar- their sex till they fell honestly in ried love, Reverence for the ele love. Others and it a perfect tormental mysteries of life is at the ment. For this reason we must be root of all religious interposition very chary about judging our neigh in matters of sox. bours.

"If you do not feel any sort of: "If any of you have failed to obligation to keep your bodies in master these temptations and want sanctification and honour, I

The sacrament of married love. Plain speaking on sex in reis-about the injury which a man does noon. Again the father-in-law was tion to these three theme was the to his partner in sin; though suro not in and this time the interview feature of an address by Dean Ingely a gentleman ought to be asham was a very short one. This time to young people at "St. Paul's ed of treating someone else's sister the defendant produced a short, Cathedral. letter in which the amount reduced to 83,500. The defondant also produced 'h letter from the son, in which the latter said he was in the den of the pirates and was The prisoner is charged."aid by reminding the father that the enduring great hardships and if Mr. Hazelring, "with having mur gang concerted were all well-dis his family did not send money to dered a man named Liu Shuk Hang ciplined and systemtically organis redeem him, his life would not be on February 4, at the old fort in a Any report to the police would reserved. At this interview, there Taiwan and there is also an old cause irreparable harm to the son

was a certain amount of bargain. charge that on February 3 and 4

As they would then quickly kill him

ing and the defendant suggested be delivered certain threatening aa compensation "life for life.

that the amount demanded had dwindled down considerably and latters in connection with the same In the same letter waa enclosed ni person"

sheet of latter paper cut through was quite small. There was a de help or advice, you need not be ab afraid we have nothing more to finite promise in the last letter deal afraid that any experienced say except the appeal of gentle- "There lives at 60, Wing Lok into halvas, one half wan te be Street, a merchant of some sub-kept by the father while the person would be restored to his parents take into your confidence will be sonal rights and dignity of others, livered by the defendant that the clergyman or doctor whom you may manly feeling to respect the per- stance of the name of Lin Wai Po half was to be produced by the man

shocked whatever you may have to especially of woman.. and the name of this man's firm who would collect the ranson

on payment of the money"

confess. ia the Shiu On Tai. This man had The second letter was from the a son, the murdered man, who was son who stated that he was it the for o'clock that evening and the defendant again called at the hands of pirates and that his life ( was in danger. He begged his fappointed time and on this occa ion the father-in-law was present.

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25 years of age, a married man with one child: From 1926 onwards

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Telephone Message.

A further appointment was mada

mossonger.

Message from Vietim,

things and go into training as if Fill your mind with better

"Remember that, no. experienced

even possible to avoid these sins it the imagination is allowed to run

riot,

"We have seen far too much of the seamy side of human natura to be surprised at anything

you were going to row in a boat There is now a widespread feel-habit of short prayers-only a few race or to run the mile. Make a he was a student at the Tai Ha ther to send the $10,000 in long Yet another ietter was produced, ing the sex-purity held a larger words sad then do the next thing." ed to become a school master. At not be preserved. The family held the Amount demanded was reduced century than it doesia Our Lord's adviser would tell you that it ia school at Shanghai and had intend Kong notes, otherwise his life would signed by Nai and in this letter place in the morality of the last) the end of January this year, the a countil after receipt of the letters, 83,000. It concluded with the teaching. Our Lord undoubtedly father, disturbed by the trouble in but owing to the threat contained words that the bearer was a reliable thought that other faults such as Shanghai, cabled to his son and ask-in the first latter, the matter was ed him to come to Hong Kong. This not reported to the police..

man and any arrangement made by hypocrisy, hardheartedness and sal- the son did, arriving, here at mid-

him would be alright. Hr. Hazer.culating worldliness are more fatal

"Popular novels represent sex as day on February 2 It will be

rigg pointed out that this was of to the spiritual life than what we the supreme fact in life. It is no shown in ovidence that up to a

extreme significance in showing may call the disreputable sins. thing of the kind. In any sane life At 3 o'clock the following after-that the defendant was not a mere the discussion of such subjects have add that the free and natural com. Now that the old taboos against ite part is a small one, and I will o'clock in the following day, the noon, the father received a tele- son did not speak to anyone other phone message in the Hakks dialect.

been removed, we hear much of the radeship between the sexes which than his own and his wife's family The father understood that the

mental and physical distress which, now. prevails makes it smaller still. they tell us, is sometimes caused by Love, as Christianity knows it, is and certain abop-keepers from whom speaker wanted him to go at once A letter from the son, bearing the the effort to live continently, and not a thrill of rapturous desire, it he made purchases.

some of the psycho-analysts would is a thing which grows through to the Tai Sam Un rotaurant in time of six o'clock, was also pro- have us believe that all repression mutual companionship, shared in- On the morning of the third, he Des Voeux Road in connection with duced. In it the son said that he is injurious.

tereste, and common, sacrifices into WE out with some relatives and his son and he was to meet a man was in good health and begged the

This last is contrary not only a union of personalities." during his absence, a man called there on the ground floor. There- fails to give the money to thing of great moraliste. Our nature bo Christianity but to all the teach-

Middis· Áge. at the shop and left his card. This upon the father wrote a letter in bearer without fail. After the let call may or may not be material to reply to the letter received the pre-sers had been read; a certain amount the case. The card bors the name vious night, saying he could not of bargaining took place. The

The sins of middle age are the of Cheung Tit and described the afford to pay so large a sum as family requested the defendant ic "The good man, the self-respect-sins of the mind-the desire for man as an officer of the Chinese ransom but mentioned that he was lower the amount demanded to ing man is one whose passions have power, and, above all, for security. Army. The man also left a chi prepared to give same hundreds of $2,500 to which the defendant un-

been taught to come to heal. A kind of fatty degeneration of the which stated that he was going up dollars as des money,

conscience often sels in about fifty. The father timately agreed. He then produe

Repression Needed,

We are less inclined to fight about to Clinton shortly and requested the

gave this letter to one of his clans. Jed the second half of the notepaper! To say that no repression anything, feast of all against our murdered man to go to room, 207 men and asked this man and the which tallied with the rat half exercises, no self-control is at the happier than the young, but it does needed is nonsense. The man who fault. Middle-aged men are often in the Hotel Nathan for a conson's father-in-law to keep the &p already in the father's possession.mercy of a turbulent mob of pas not follow that they ought to be versation which was "important. *'

pointment for him in the restaur. The money was then paid over Aosions and impulses which will give "It is not really a new world; Shortly afterwards a. student

the defendant and various sugges. him no peace and will entirely de-there is not, and cannot be, any friend came to the shop and en-

stroy his usefulness..

break of continuity; but the war When those two men arrived attions were made to him about the The popular morality of Go has given civilisation a great shoke quired for Liu Shuk Hang. As the the restaurant, they found defen-method of handing over the son. as you plaass is most dangerous, and we are still reeling under the father thought that this friend

The family wanted to go and ra|The old Puritaniam, narrow as it shock, dant on the ground floor and might see his son before the latter propped up on his desk was

ceive him, but the defendant sug was, was far better, because at any "Iventure to think that civilisa- angeated that they should go in a rate it kept the character from go-tion will stand fast, guarding the returned to the shop, he gave the envelope addressed to Liu Wai Po. car to the Causeway Bay Traming to pieces in a round of frivo old quadrilateral-Religion, Patrio- card and the message to this friend. They went up to the defendant and Shelter. The family did this at the lous and often sinful self-indul tisa, Liberty and the Family. All |

appointed hour but the victim was gence. spoke to him and asked him whe-nowhere to be seen.

four need purifying and spiritua- "Soma may say Why should we lising, but they will not be destroy- At 3 o'clock the son returned and ther he was the man who telephon-| On the following day, the father choose this particular method of ed".

after having taken a copy of it.

ant.

received a telephone call. He ask-

the farther gave him the copy which ed. The defendant did not seemed if the speaker was Mr. Tsang

his bill and left.

The First Lettera,

yes,"

is harmonious to start with. -We

Speaking of middle age, the Dean all have a lower self which must said the danger lay in

itling Paul even speaks of crucifixion. be kept under abern control; St. down."

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be made of the card and message.so understand, so they made an in-and the voice replied "Yes." The The son read it, inquired where diention of the not of tolephoning speaker then asked for a farther these letters were received, the boy that the murdered man must have Nathan Road was and left the shop. to him and the man said "

$500 and was told to go to the was dead and his body was lying been tortured. On the back of the shop and collect the money. He in Taiwan Fort, I acems pretty That was the last time that he was The letter written by Liu was then promised to do this, but did not clear," said Mr. Hazelrigg," that left ear there was a burn of con soon alive by any member of his handed to the defendant who keep the appointment. At three just as the defendant and his as siderable size. The position of this family.

'clock he again telephoned and the sociates if he had any associates injury showed that it was exceed- in turn handed the murdered father-in-law spoke to the defen-broke faith the first time, they de ingly impossible for it to have been At 3 o'clock the same afternoon, man's father-in-law a letter writ-dent this time and asked him why Liberately intended to break faith caused accidentally: In the abdo- a man who had stayed at the Noten by the man Nai. In this fur- the son had not been returned. The again the second time, even if the men, six and a half inches above! than Hotel in room 207, called for ther letter the writer said, "I am some quarrel in the gang and that not in a position to keep faith be. which pendirated the muscles and defendant replied that there was further 8500 was paid. They were the navel, there was a puncture sending Mr. Tsang Un Kong to a further 8500 was required. He cause they had killed the boy!" near that wound there were a num- go to you. "It repeated the de-a asked to call and he replied Speaking of the discovery of the ber of scratches varying from haif mand for $10,000 and said that if that the family would receive a body at the Taiwan Fort, Mr. to three quarters of an inch long. At 10 o'clock that night a knock the account was paid by five o'clock would be enclosed.

letler in which fuller particulars Hazelrigg said that on February Mr. Hazelrigg said that considering. 8 a young man and a friend went the nature of these injuries and the was heard on the door of 80, Wing that day, it could be reduced to At 3 o'clock on February 8, the for a picnic and in one chamber three letters which were written Lok Street, and a voice called out 20,000.

father received two further letters in the fort they saw someone lying by the victim imploring his family The letter added that if hy post. These letters bore Hong down. They threw some crackers to pay the ransome, one must be "receive latter." The door was the request was not acceded to, Kong post marks and showed into the fort but the man did not driven to the conclusion that the opened and two envelopes we we will leave the jade broken o'clock, February 7. It was diff move at all and they concluded man was tortured." thrown on to the floor of the shop.rather than preserve the tile, cult to say, pointed out Mr. Hazel- that the man must be dead. In shaukiwan on February 18, Hef

The defendant was arrested at rigg, when they were posted, as the fright they ran away and it was The substance of one of the letters When we become merciless" the oth was Chinese New Year's Day not until February 10 that they was put up for identification and was that the writer, whose surnano letter went on, "you will find re- and the 7th was a Sunday. In this made a report to the police was immediately identified by those was Nai, claimed to know Liu peatence too lato,"

The police found the body, I members of Mr. Lin's family with letter there was some grumbling Shuk Hing and had asked him to

about the amount being 39,500 in-was lying on it back and was whom negotiations had been con stead of 88,000, There was a re- stripped of outer garments being ducted. On his person at the time of lead him some money and that Liu

quest that the father-in-law should only clad in singlet and shorts his arrest was found a pocket book had refused. The writer bagged

At the interview in the restaurant, Ting Restaurant in the Bund and Police in the ravines near the fort, to be a letter written by the de- go to Canton and stay at the Kiu Pair of shoes as found by the in which contained what appeared Liu's father to give him a loan of the letter written by the father was he was to registered in the name At the deceased's foot stood a candle fendant to his mother. It showed $10,000 quickly:

read by the defendant who pointed of Chul On Tat. It was promised, partly burned. In recess in the that the defendant had no money. Mr. Hazelrigg went on to say out that the amount of money offer when the extra 2500 was paid over. Round the neok of the deceased money by the end of the month. that the son would be handed over wall of a fort, a knife was found at the time but hoped to send some that the letter contained, a sentence ed was both small and indefinite. The next letter was also in the same there was found a string wound Two receipts for jewellery purchas to the effect that you are to give Accordingly the letter was brought tenor and again said that when three times round. It was so fighted in Canton were also found in is a reply at 10 o'clock at the back to Wing Lok Street where the the money was paid, the man would the skin beneath was like Mr. Hazelrigg consluded his out

ly wound that the doctor stated the pocket: book latest otherwise the son will never amount offered was definitely rais-

be released.

parchment. The throat was cut, line of the case by saying that get back to the house." It also to $1,000 I then The father-in-law with members that very gone down to only as a content is avidity from ear to ear with such savagery these were the facts, given as brief. stated that the address where the arranged that the defendant should of the family-accordingly went to spine was wvered. money, could be handed over would call at the Shiu On Tai firm at named, but nothing happened. The

Canton and registered in the Hotel A be made known to the father on s'o'clock that afternoon. He call-truth of the matter was, said Mr.

Amount Too Small,

Broka. Faith.

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Torture.

Mr Hazelrigg then spoke of oor

the next day. The letter concluded ad there at the appointed time and Hazelrigg, that by the time that tain minor injuries, which showed

-in-poapsotion with the charges- against-the- defendant.

After sinne, evidence had bean

hearing was adjourned. galled to support the opening, the

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