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DASTARDLY MURDER DESCRIBED IN POLICE COURT.

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A terrible story of the activities of a gang of kidnappers and mur- derers was unfolded by Mr. T. M. Hnizerlag (Assistant Crown Solicitor) before Mr. Wynne Jones at the Central Polico Court yes. terday afternoon when prosecut Ing

on the capital a Chinese charge arising out of the death of Liu Shek-hong, a young man whose body was found in the Tal Wan Fort nt Hunghom on February 10 last.

In presenting the facts of the ense Mr. Hazlerigg said that thero lived at 66, Winglok Street, a mer- chant of some substance by the name of Liu Wal-po, who carried on business under the firm name of Shiu On Tai. This merchant had a son, Liu Shek-hong, who was 25 years of age, married and had one child.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1932.

the money, otherwise his life would | he produced the other half of the not be preserved.

Identification letter to which Mr.

After receiving the two letters Inzierigg had prayletely referred. Here's

a family council was held, but Suggestions as to how the man owing to the threat contained in was to be delivered were discussed.

new flat

the letter, the Police, unfortunate. The father wanted to go to where packing for delicious

his son was

when

Ty, were not informed.

Nothing further happened until could pay the money and take his 9 o'clock tire following day (Felson home, but the defendant ro- ruary 1) when the father received fused. The money was given to a telephone

the speaker him, and they were to meet on the message, using the Hakka dialect. So far as following day at the Causeway the Inther understood the speaker Bay tram terminus. wanted to meet him at the Tai Sam

Yuen

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speaker mentioned that he would bo alone on the ground floor of the restaurant.

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Prisoner Breaks Faith. The appointment was kept by the relatives of the deceased, but they found nobody there. The following day the father received Prisoner Appeara. -

a telephone message from the man who Later the father wrote a letter named Cheung (defendant) to the person whose name appenr- anked for further $600, He was ed at the bottom of the demand asked to go to the whon, but did

Tot do no. for rausom, and Judicated that the

Later, another telo- zum mentioned was too much, but phone message was received and, that · he would give "some when asked why the kindnapped the hundreds of dollars ns ten money. man had not been released,

clans-caller replied that there had been This letter was given to a man who was asked to go to the trouble among the gang and they Bestaurant and there hand it to wanted another $500.

the The father agreed to pay the man who had telephoned. The youth was also sent father-in-law of the deceased extra money and naked the defon-

to the

Tai dant to call. The defendant sald Sam Yuen

that he could not but would give On arrival the two men found the father further information in: the defendant sitting by himself

letter.

Nothing further happened until on the ground floor, and propped against the wall was a letter ad- February 8, when the father re- dressed to bin Wai-po (the de-ceived two further letters. The ceased's father). The defendant writer grumbled because $2.500 was asked if he was the man who and not $3,000 had been paid and had telephoned, hat he appeared suggested that the father go to not to understand. However, the Canton to the Kim Tin Restaurant CARTONETTES

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From 1926 onwards the son was a student at the Tai Ha School at Shanghai and he had intended to become a school teacher at the end of the present year. Disturbed by the trouble in Shanghal, the father ralled to the som, asking him to come to Hongkong. The son ar- rived in the Cofmy at mil-day one was the man who had telephon-to put his card, bearing the name February 2. It would be given in evidence that up to three o'clock the following day the son had not spoken to anybody other than memn- bers of his own and fa wife's family and fokis of the shop where he had made purchases.

defendant subsequently said that on the bund. He was instructed

He went out on the morning of February 3 and during his absence a man called at the shop and left his card on which he had written

Nathan in Yaumati and that

he wanted to see the deceased on sorne important business.

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"The defendant was handed the letter written by the father and he in turn gave the other two men a note from the writer of the original letter demanding the fansom. In this latter letter the

Further Interviews.

At the interview the letter was read by the defondant, who

ap. peared to consider the amount both

too small and too indefinite. The

letter was taken back to the father

de.

The letter promised that the kid- of his shop, on the notice board.

napped man would be handed over at the same time as the $600 was paid,"

Youth Is Killed,

father-in-law went to Canton

On receipt of the letters the

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to

sur-

writer said he was sending a Mr. Cheng Yuen-kong, apparently an other name by which the defen-directed, but nothing happened. dant was known, to negotiate with

The truth of the matter was that them. The letter repeated the de- by the time the letters were receiv eard bore themand and warned the father that and his body, was seen in the Tai a message. The

cd the kidnapped man was dend name of Cheung Tit and described he might find repentance too late. the person

As an officer

to the

Wan fort. It seemed very clear adjutant in charge of the Ninth

that, just as bofore the defendant Division of the National Army.

and his associates, If he had The message indicated that the

sociatca, had broken faith in the man was staying at the Hotel

matter of delivering up the man for $2.600, they were

going break faith again in the matter of and the sum altered to the

the $500; they did not intend to Anite offer of $1,000.

An appoint-killed the son.

keep faith as they had alrendy ment was then made for the de- fendant to visit the father's shop for n pleine to that same evening. At five o'clock the defendant went to the shop, where he was seen by the father and the clansman. The father-in- law, who was the only member of the family able to speak hakka, was not present. The interview

only lasted a quarter of an hour.

At that interview the defendant landed over a further letter which the demand was reduced to $5000. A further interview took place at about seven o'clock the same evening, Again the father- That night a knock was beard on in-law was not present and the in- the front door of 66. Winglok | terview was a very short one. The Street. and a voice called out defendant produced another letter "Receive letter." A fuki opened in which the amount was reduced reto 8,500. The defendant also pra letters The one and two thrown in. The substance of une

lucent letter from the soll, in of the letters was that the writer which the writer said he was in know the deceased, whom he had the den of the pirates enduring asked to lend some money but had great hardship, and if the money was not sent his life would not be preserved. At that interview a certain amount of bargaining took place.

Mysterious Letters. Shortly after the deceased had called and enquired for him. Thinking that the friend might see the deceased first, the father gave him the card but himself took copy of the message.

At three o'clock the sen returned to the shop and was given the extract which the father had made from the curd, After reading the message the som enquired where Nathan Rond was, and left the shop. This was de last time he was seen alive by

any of his relatives.

were

the refused. Thereupon writer begged the boy's father to lend him $10,000. The father. | threatened the letter, was to give a reply by the following day (February 4.) or the deceted not return. The writer would showed himself to be cognizant with the fact that the deceased had recently arrived from Shanghai..

The letter intimated that the Rong was well disciplined and systematically organised. The father was not to report the matter to the Police or they would kill the deceased "life for life."

Son's Plca.

Prisoner's Role.

In

On February B two friends went hillside and in one of the chambers the fort an the they saw a man on the ground. They threw a packet of crackers int prised when the man did not move. the chamber, but were They became frightened and away. No report was made to the Police, but two days later the Police were notified and

party went to the fort, where they found

ran

the body of the kidnapped man.. back in one of the

The deceased was lying on his subterranean

pussures.

were missing, the boily wearing a singlet, a pair of shorts and socks. No outer garments were found, but ravine below the parapet of the fort, his shoes were discovered in the

where they had apparently been thrown. Near the deceased was z candle partly burned. In a recess

All his outer garments.

in a wall a knife was found.

Signs of Torture. Around the neck of the deceased there was knotted, three times, a piece of cord. It was pulled so A further appointment was made tightly that the skin underneath and at nine o'clock that evening was like parchment and there was the defendant again arrived at the cut in the throat-extending from shop. This time the father-in-law, ear to ear. It Was done so savage- the only hakka-speaking memberly that the ligaments were of the family, was present. In a through to the spine. further letter delivered by the de- fendant the writer agreed to re dire the sum to $3,000. The letter Indicated that the defendant was a reliable man to whom the ransom money could be paid.

Me Hazlerin intimated that that showed that the defendant was not a mere messenger In the

In the same envelope was a por- tion of a letter which had been cut down the centre and which was in-matter.- lended to be used by the person de- livering the ransom as identifica tion, the other half being retained by the other party.

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The defendant also handed over letter from the son in which the kidnapped man naked that the The second envelope which

bearer be given the money without Acerinin amount of bar- delivered that evening contained a gaining again took place and It letter from the Hon in which he was suggested that the sum be re- told his father that he had fallen duced to $2,500, The defendant at into the hands of pirates and that first refused, but later agreed to his life was la imminent danger, that figure. As proof that he was The son asked his father to send authorised to collect the

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