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TELEGRAPH.

DASTARDLY MURDER. DESCRIBED IN POLICE COURT.

TERRIBLE INJURIES..

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

a family council was hold, but owing to the threat contained in

the letter, the Police, unfortunate

ly, were not informed.

Nothing further happened unt!!

Hazlerigg bad previously referred. Here's'

Suggestions tu how the man

was to be delivered were discussed.

new flat

the father wanted to go to where packing for delicious

his son was imprisoned, could pay the money and take his

3 o'clock the following day (Febson home; but the defendant re ruary 4) when the father received funcil. The money was given to a telephone message, the speaker him, and they were to meet on the Causeway using the Hakka dialect. So for na following day at the the father understood the speaker Bay tram terminus. wanted to meet him at the 'Tai

Yucu Restaurant. The speaker mentioned that he would be alone on the ground floor of the restaurant.

A terrible story of the activities of a gang of kidnappers and mur-Sam derers was unfolded by Mr. T. *M. Halzerizz Aistant Crown Solleitar) before Mr. Wynne Jones at the Central Police Court yea- terday afternoon when prosecut-

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on the capital charge arising out of the death of Idu Shak-hong, a young man whose body was found in the Tat Wan Fort at flunghom February 10 last.

on

In presenting the facts of Case Mr. Hazlerigg said that there Hived at 66, Winglok Street, 1 mer- chant of some substance by the name of Lin Wai-po, who carried on business under the firm name Thix merchant of Shin Os Tai. had a son, Liu Shok-hong, who was 25 years of age, married and had ene child.

- Prisoner Appears.

Prisoner Breaks Faith. The appointment was kept by the relatives of the decensed, but they found nobody there, The following day the father received telephone message from the man who named Cheung (defendant) Later the father wrote a letter to the person whose name appear asked for a further $500. He was the shop. but did ed at the bottom of the demand naked to go to

not do Later, 80.

tele- another for ransom, and Indicated that the

phone message was received and. gum mentioned was too much, but ph

the kindnapped that ho would

"some when naked why Kive hundreds of dollars as ten money. man had not been released, the This letter was given to a cians. caller replied that there had been man who was naked to go to the trouble among the gang and they Restaurant and there hand it to wanted another $500. the man who had telephoned. The decensed father-in-law of the youth was also sent to the Tai Sam

Yuen.

On arrival the two men found the defendant sitting by himself un the ground flour, and propped

The father agreed to pay the extra money and asked the defen- dant to call. The defendant said that he could not but would give the father further information in

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Nothing further happened unti! From 1926 onwards the son was a student at the Tai Ha School atinst the wall was a letter ad- February 8, when the father

dressed to Liu Wai-pe (the deceived two further letters. The to Shanghai and he had intended

ceased's father). The defendant writer grumbled because $2,500 ་་ become a school teacher at the end

was asked if he was the man who and not $3,000 had been paid and had telephoned, but he appeared suggested that the father not to understand. However, the Canton to the Kim Tin Restaurant CARTONETTES defendant subsequently said that on the bund.

of the present year. Disturbed by the trouble in Shanghai, the faller cabled to the son, asking him to

to Hongkong. The son rived in the Colony at mid-day-on February 2. It would be given In evidence that up in three o'clock the following day the son had not spoken to anybody other than mem- wife's bees of his own and his family and fokia of the shop where he had made purchases.

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

The eard bere

a message.

the

name of Cheung Tit and described the person As an officer to the adjutant in charge of the Ninth Division of the National Army. The message indicated that the man was staying

At the

Hotel ke Nathan in Yaumati and that wanted to see the deceased on some important business.

Mysterious Letters.

He was

go to

Instructed

he was the man who had telephon-to put his card, bearing the name of his shop, on the notice board.

Trusom.

The defendant was handed the letter written by the father and be in turn gave the other two men n note from the writer of the the letter demanding original

in this latter letler the writer said he was sending a Mr. Cheung Toen-keng, apparently un- nther name by which the defen- dant was known, to negotiate with them. The letter repented the de- mand and warned the Tather that he might and repentance too late.

Further Interviews.

The letter promised that the kid | Parish jar napped man would be handed over at the same time as the $500 wa hald.

Youth Killed.

On receipt of the letters the father-in-law went to Canton directed, but nothing happened, The truth of the matter was that by the time the letters were receiv ed the kidnapped man was dead and his body, was seen in the Tal Wan fort. It seemed very clear that, just as before the defendant and his associates, if he had na Hociates, had broken faith in tho matter of delivering up the man for $2,500,

going to 2,500, they were brenk faith again in the matter of the $500; they did not intend to

Faith keep

ns they ha nirendy killed the son. An

for a picine to

On February 8 two friends went

the fort on the

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

ap. peared to consider the amount both too small and too indefnibe. The letter was taken back to the father and the sum altered to the de- finite offer $1,000. appoint nent was then made for the de- Shortly after the deceased had fendant to visit the father's shop left his father's

shop. a frief that same evening. At five o'clock valled and enquired for him the defendant went to the shop, aide and in one of the chambers they saw a man on the ground. Thinking that the friend might see where he was seen by the father

Д packet of crackers the deceased first, the father gave and the clansman. The father-in-They threw

into the chamber, but were

aut- him the card but himself took a law, who was the only member of

prised when the man did not move, the messagZO, At three the copy of

the family able to speak

hakka, was

They became frightened and ran o'clock the son returned to the shop, not present. The interview only

away. No report was made 10 anel was given the extract which lasted a quarter of an hour. the father had made from the card.

the Police, but two days later the Police were notified and a

party After reading the message the

went to the fort, where they found son enquired where Nathan Road

the body of the kidnapped man. was, and left the shop. This was this last time he was seen alive by any of his relatives.

were

one. The

At that intergiew the defendant handed over. Afurther letter in which the demand was reduced to $6,000. A further interview took pince at about seven o'clock the

evening

Again the father- That night n krock was heard on in-law was not present and the in- the front door of 66, Winglok terview was a very sheer letter Street, and a voice called wat defendant produced "Ree sise letter." A taki opened in which the amount was reduced to $1,500. The defendant also pro- letters the door and (wo

in 11 Ping

The substance of one tured a letter from the son of the letters was that the writer which the writer said he was in Few the dereused, whom he had the den of the pirates during naked to lend some money but had great hardship, and if the money refused, Thereupon. the was not sent his life would not be

A that interview winter Legged the boy's father to preserved. let him $10,000. The father, certain amount of bargaining took threatened the letter, was to give place. arely by the following day (February 13 or the deceasedl would not turn. The writer showed hintswif to he cognizant with the fact that the decensed and recently arrived from Shanghai. The letter intimated that FT WIN well disciplined and

organised. systematically

The father was not to report the matter to the Palice or they would kill the deceased "life for life."

חיויא!

Son's Plen.

by the other party.

the

Prisoner's Role."

:

A further appointment was mada and at nine o'clock that evening the defendant again arrived at the shop, This time the father-in-law, the only hakka-speaking member of the family, was present. Ina further letter delivered by the de- femiani the writer jugreed to ris duce the sum to $3,000. The letter indicated that the defendant was n reliable man to whom the ransom money could be paid.

Mr. Hazlerigg intimated that that showed that the defendant was not a mere messenger in the maltor.

In the same envelope was a por- tom of a letter which had been cut down the centre and which was in tended to be used by the person de- |- The defendant also banded over livering the ransom as identifica, a letter from the son in which the tion, the other half being retained kidnapped man asked that the hearer be given the money without The second envelope which was fall. A certain amount of bar- delivered that evening contained in gaining again took place and it letter from the son in which he was suggested that the sum be re- fold 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 in imminent danger, that figure. Ag proof that he was The son asked his father to send authorised to collect the

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The deceased was lying on his back in one of the subterrangan passages. All his outer garments were missing, the body wearing a singlet, a pair of shorts and socks. No outer garments were found, but his shoes were discovered in the ravine below the parapet of the fort, where they had apparently been thrown. Near the deceased was a candle partly hirned. In a recess in a wall a kaffe was found.

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Signs of Torture. Around the neck of the decensed there was knotted, three times, a piece of cord. It was pulled tightly that the skin underneath was like parchment and there was a cut in the throat-extending from nr to ear. It was done so savage- ty that the ligaments were cut through to the spine.

There were two minor injuries of a significent nature.

the On back of the car was a bura of some considerable size. The position of the burn indiented that it had not been done accidentally and its nature was such that it appeared to have been made by a candle. It was too extensive to have been made by a match. On the abdo- inch wound. Radiating from the wound were a number of scratches varying from three quarters of an inch to half an inch in length.

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His Worship would have it in evidence that those scratches could not have been caused by the blow which caused the punctured wound, Thuy appeared to have been made (Continued on Page 11.)

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