preface
At the beginning of the liberation of Shanghai, a strange case occurred. An entrepreneur returned home and was robbed by 6 masked men. When lawyer Sha Qianli went to investigate, the old man who guarded the door provided an important clue: one of the people who came to rob was a policeman! Sha Qianli was very surprised after hearing this, and reported to Mayor Chen Yi, who demanded that the case be strictly investigated, and finally 17 criminals were found... What's going on here?
01
Rich merchants are robbed by masked men
Guo Xuezhang, this name is quite unfamiliar to readers.
He was once one of the 12 famous industrialists in Shanghai Beach, and he was a rich party.
After the liberation of Shanghai in 1949, Guo Xuezhang, persuaded by a democrat, actively participated in the symposium, visited friends, and made plans for production.
Late One night in late June of that year, Guo Xuezhang returned to a three-story villa near Jing'an Temple in a Lincoln sedan. This villa has white granite thick walls and red roofs. Below the villa is a garden with a red stone paved passage leading to the gate.
Guo Xuezhang went to chat with another wealthy merchant this time, and because of the hospitality of the other party, Guo Xuezhang had dinner at his house. He liked to drink, and the two of them frequently raised glasses, and soon two bottles of good wine were drunk. It was around 10 o'clock in the evening when I said goodbye. So he sat in the car and fell asleep very quickly. As the Lincoln drove to the villa gate, the driver honked his horn to remind the janitor, who was over sixty years old, to open the door.
But this time it was very different.
The old man who guarded the door slowly stepped out of the door and pulled the door open, and the driver was trying to release the clutch, when suddenly a pistol came at him: "Don't move!" ”
The driver turned his face to look at it, and was startled to see that it was a masked man. The driver had not yet returned to his senses, and the door had been opened by the man: "Go to the side!" Then another masked man got into the carriage, grabbed him by the neck collar and pulled him out. The masked man showed only his eyes and nose, and he drove the car in place of the driver. At this time, three other masked men rushed in, one forced the old man with a gun, one took out his pliers to cut the telephone line, and the other waited for the car to come in and closed the door, and the whole operation was completed in one go.
When all this happened, Guo Xuezhang was still sleeping in the car. One of the small masked robbers pushed Guo Xuezhang's shoulder, and Guo Xuezhang woke up sleepily: "Arrived? The masked man pushed Guo Xuezhang hard and said, "Go down! Guo Xuezhang felt that something was wrong, and asked tremblingly, "What are you?" The little man didn't say a word, pointing a pistol at him and saying, "Less nonsense, go down!" ”
At this time, Guo Xuezhang's wine was completely awake, and he realized that he had encountered a robbery, so he had to sigh and get out of the car.
The robbers were 6 in total, two of whom guarded the gate, one imprisoned the driver in the car, and the other 3 escorted Guo Xuezhang into the villa.
The robber who led the way said, "Study," and then strode forward, from which it seemed that this robber was no stranger to Guo Xuezhang's family.
At that time, Guo Xuezhang was 46 years old, his body was already blessed, and he was breathing loudly because he was frightened. The robbers asked Guo Xuezhang to sit down on the couch.
At this time, a black gauze glove asked, "Are you Boss Guo?" ”
Guo Xuezhang has been living in Shanghai Beach for more than 30 years, and he knows that the robbers come to the door for nothing more than money, and generally do not hurt people's lives, so he nodded: "I am Guo Xuezhang, I don't know how much money you want to go to the door, you make a price!" Guo Xuezhang said straight to the point.
"Boss Guo is really cheerful," the black gauze gloves gave a thumbs up, "well, Boss Guo is a famous rich man in Shanghai Beach, we want to borrow 50 million yuan from you, if the cash is not enough, you can use gold to offset it." "At that time, ten thousand yuan was equivalent to one yuan now.
Guo Xuezhang secretly cried bitterly, 50 million yuan is a huge amount! But seeing that they all had pistols, he had to calmly nod his head: "Yes! ”
After getting the permission of the robbers, Guo Xuezhang opened the safe and took out all the cash inside, about 30 million yuan, as well as several rings and 3 gold watches. Guo Xuezhang put the cash and the ring and the gold watch on the table and said, "Almost?" ”
The black gauze gloves walked over to the table, touched it and said, "Okay." Then the other two robbers put away the money and materials and said, "Boss Guo, we must also grievance you, otherwise we will not be able to get out!" Before Guo Xuezhang could say anything, one of the robbers ripped off his belt and tied his hands upside down, while the black gauze gloves pulled off the scarf on the arm of the sofa, kneaded it into a ball, and stuffed it into Guo Xuezhang's mouth. Having done all this, the robbers quickly cleared the footprints from the carpet, turned off the lights, and quietly left.
Guo Xuezhang's family members were sleeping soundly in the upstairs bedroom, and the family did not know when all this happened. Guo Xuezhang was tied to a leather swivel chair and could not move at all. His driver and janitor were also tied up and thrown on the cold cement floor. It was not until the next morning, when the servants of Guo Xuezhang's family went out to buy vegetables, that they found something strange: the car was parked in the courtyard, and the gate was not closed, which was not a thing that had happened before. She pushed open the janitor's room and saw the driver and janitor lying on the ground. The maid hurried to untie the driver and the janitor. The two immediately went upstairs to find Guo Xuezhang and untied him again. Guo Xuezhang was embarrassed and shouted, "Report the case, report the case!" ”
02
The old man at the door provides an important clue
After receiving the report, the Xincheng Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau quickly sent an investigation team to Guo Xuezhang's home to investigate. There are 7 people in the group, and the leader of the group is named Cheng Daqi, who is about 40 years old. Cheng Daqi was short in stature and a shrewd man, and the people he led were all young people in their 30s. Cheng Daqi knew Guo Xuezhang, so as soon as they met, he greeted: "Mr. Guo, you are frightened. Guo Xuezhang briefly introduced the situation, and Cheng Daqi inquired about the doubts again, and then sent the criminal police to make a record and survey the scene.
The criminal police took the investigation of the scene very seriously, from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. Before leaving, Cheng Daqi and Guo Xuezhang shook hands and bid farewell, and said with relief: "Mr. Guo, please rest assured, we will definitely do our best to solve this case, and the money stolen will be returned and the criminals will be brought to justice!" ”
However, after Cheng Daqi left the Guo family, the investigation of the case has not progressed. At that time, Shanghai had just been liberated, and The Kuomintang agents were still moving around, and the situation was more complicated. Due to the particularity of the case, it has also aroused the close attention of the Shanghai industrial and commercial circles, and even made a lot of noise for a while, full of wind and rain, and everyone regards the Xincheng Branch As the key to uncovering the mystery. At that time, the newborn people's government did a lot of good things for the people, and the city was newly born and waited for revitalization. However, the old judicial procedures were eliminated with the collapse of the Kuomintang, and the new judicial procedures had not yet been fully established, so a private prosecution case like Guo Xuezhang's needed to ask for a "plaintiff's lawyer", and he invited a well-known figure, that is, Mr. Sha Qianli, one of the famous "Seven Patriotic Gentlemen".
Sand thousands of miles
Sha Qianli called every few days to inquire about the Xincheng branch, but Cheng Daqi's answer was: Don't worry, wait. This is the answer to several inquiries in a row. As Guo Xuezhang's lawyer, Sha Qianli did not dare to be sloppy, and he decided to go to Guo Xuezhang's house to understand the situation first.
Guo Xuezhang welcomed Sha Qianli's arrival very welcome, and wanted to invite Sha Qianli to dinner, sha Qianli resigned: "As a lawyer, I did not have the reason to eat at the client's home, I came by the way to understand the situation of the case, Mr. Guo, let's just talk casually." ”
Guo Xuezhang expressed his deep gratitude and said: "The amount of robbery in this case is not large, but the problem is that I Guo Xuezhang have not suffered from this nest! ”
Sha Qianli said, "Sir said very well, this case must be solved, so that others will not be robbed again and disturb the public order of new Shanghai!" ”
Guo Xuezhang then told Sha Qianli about the situation that day.
When he learned that there were two other parties, Sha Qianli said, "Can I talk to these two people?" ”
Guo Xuezhang said: "Of course. ”
Because the driver sent Mrs. Guo to buy something, Guo Xuezhang called the janitor over.
Soon the conversation got to the point.
Sha Qianli asked, "Do you think the masked people who came that day are all locals living in this area of the new city?" Or is it an out-of-towner? ”
The old man who guarded the door asked strangely, "Sir, you are..."
Sha Qianli said, "I am lawyer Sha Qianli." ”
At that time, we all knew the "Seven Patriotic Gentlemen", so the old man who guarded the door was solemnly respected when he heard the name, and intuitively Realized that this old man who guarded the case knew the clues of the case.
Sure enough, the old man who guarded the door asked, "Mr. Sha, now that Shanghai has been liberated, is the patrol house also liberated?" ”
The old janitor still followed the old custom of calling the police station a patrol house.
"Of course, now Shanghai is the master of the people, your old man is also one of them, and the public security bureau is also in the hands of the people to crack down on bad people!"
The old man who guarded the door hesitated for a moment and said, "If the people in the patrol room break the law, will they also be hit?" ”
Sha Qianli said, "You can rest assured, the Communist Party is doing things fairly and reasonably, and everything is for the good of the people!" ”
The janitor finally believed Sha Qianli's words and said, "I will understand when you say this, Mr. Sha, you don't have to call the patrol room anymore, it was their people who came that day!" ”
Guo Xuezhang and Sha Qianli couldn't help but exhale.
The janitor says what he knows:
One of the robbers who came to the door that night was the detective from the New Town Patrol House, the one with the black gauze gloves, his name was Donvik, and I had known him before. That night he said, "Don't move," and I could already hear the voice. The next day, he pretended to come to investigate. At that time, I lived in Killing Cow Lane, and there was a neighbor named Liu next door who was a brother in bai, so I knew him. However, Don Vic certainly did not know me, otherwise my old life would have died that night. When he came to survey the scene the next day, I looked at him intently, and he didn't notice anything, so I knew it was him.
Sha Qianli understood and said, "You didn't tell anyone else about this, did you?" Please keep your mouth shut, how to do it next, I have my own way! ”
Sha Qianli did not expect that this visit would actually find out such an important clue, which provided the necessary conditions for clarifying the case!
03
Chen Yi demanded that the case be strictly investigated
After Sha Qianli returned, he pondered the case deeply, and according to the old man who guarded the door, a bad guy was mixed in with the police of the Xincheng substation. But what is difficult to determine but what is hard to determine is that the bad guys who mixed into the New City Bureau are only Tang Wei? There are still several, after all, there are 6 people who entered Guo Xuezhang's family that day! Now that the investigators in the case are from the Xincheng sub-bureau, how can there be a final conclusion?
Thinking about it, Sha Qianli decided to report the case to the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau. The next day, Mayor Chen Yi invited Sha Qianli to attend the forum, and after the meeting, Sha Qianli briefly explained the case to Chen Yi, and finally expressed his own point of view: "Mayor Chen, now that Shanghai has just been liberated, many of our grass-roots public security personnel are old policemen who left behind the former police station and the patrol house. I think that in the robbery case of Guo Xuezhang's family, there may be other people who mixed with bad people like Tang Wei into the police force, so now I can't trust the people of the Xincheng substation, and they have weapons in their hands, if these people jump the wall in a hurry, the consequences are unpredictable, I want to ask the Municipal Public Security Bureau for support. ”
Chen Yi immediately said: We must crack down all criminals who affect social order, so you can go to Comrade Xu Jianguo of the Municipal Public Security Bureau. ”
Xu Jianguo, an expert in security work, said after listening to Sha Qianli's introduction: "This matter is not difficult to solve, and after three days, they will be wiped out!" ”
Sha Qianli believed in Xu Jianguo's ability, so he went back to prepare for his work.
So, who is this Don Vic?
It turned out that Don Vic was not very old, only in his 30s, but had been eating police meals for more than 10 years. He was originally born in a small merchant family, after graduating from junior high school, he mixed at home for a few years, and later when the British Concession patrol house recruited "bag inquiry", Tang Wei was introduced to this industry. After the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in 1945, the patrol house in the British Concession was renamed the police station, and Donvik became a policeman again. After the liberation of Shanghai in 1949, Tang Wei was retained as an old policeman by the Xincheng Sub-bureau. This was originally a good thing, but Don vick did not cherish this opportunity, he felt uncomfortable, why? The reason is not difficult to understand: as an old policeman, Don vic has his own way of making money for more than 10 years, and the hooligans under his jurisdiction have "filial piety money" for him every month, and in addition, when performing official duties, they can also extort money from ordinary people. However, after the liberation of Shanghai, those hooligans were arrested like rats, and those who were not dealt with were also converted to evil, where can Tang Wei still have "filial piety money" to collect? As for the common people, they have long since turned themselves into masters, who will eat your set of extortion and extortion? Don Vic had no "extra money" income, and his palms were itching, so he took the risk and simply went to rob!
After learning about this situation, Xu Jianguo, director of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, thought of a plan and decided to wipe out Tang Wei and others!
04
The director of the Public Security Bureau made a plan to arrest all the criminals
After Sha Qianli reported to Mayor Chen Yi and Xu Jianguo, on the third day, Zou Feng, director of the Xincheng sub-bureau, called three criminal policemen over, one of whom was Tang Wei and the other two were communists, but the people in the sub-bureau did not know their identities.
Zou Feng assigned them a task.
As soon as he heard that there was a task, Tang Wei still did not change the habits of the old social police, and immediately stood up and said: "Please ask the chief of the bureau to face the instructions, the subordinates will definitely complete the mission!" ”
Zou Feng, who was from the New Fourth Army, did not pay any attention to Tang Wei's set at all, and said: "Please sit down, your task is that according to the intelligence of relevant parties, a major thief who committed a crime in Shanghai two years ago recently appeared in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, so please take a steamship to Ningbo tonight to arrest the criminals." Now there are still 6 hours to leave the ship, you will now go home to take care of it, the ticket has been bought for you, and then you will go to the big pier to board the boat, don't miss the task, make sure to complete! ”
The captain took out the ticket and handed it to the three Donviks, and they left.
Tang Wei had just walked to the mouth of his hutong when he heard a voice coming from the phone booth: "Tang Lao'er, just have your phone." ”
Don Vic felt strange, he walked into the phone booth and took the handset: "I am Don Vic, who are you?" ”
"I am the old man of the Guo family!"
Don Vic was a little confused.
"Mr. Guo Xuezhang's family." You wore a pair of black gauze gloves that night, didn't you often go to Kill Cow Lane To drink at Big Brother Liu? ”
Don Vic immediately understood, and was shocked, the telephone handpiece almost fell, and whispered, "What do you want?" ”
The janitor laughed and said, "I'm old Shanghai, you know the rules on the beach road..."
Tang Wei gritted his teeth, but still pretended to be calm: "Well, let's meet at an old bunker in Caohejing..."
Tang Wei took a dagger, put the pistol in his pocket, and rode a bicycle to the old bunker in Caohejing.
At three o'clock that afternoon, Tang Wei and the old man who was the janitor met at the old bunker, and Tang Vic recognized the janitor at a glance, and when he saw that there was no one around, he suddenly took out his dagger and said: "Old thing, you are really impatient with life, and the bamboo lever actually knocked on Lao Tzu's head!" ”
The janitor, looking bad, immediately ran toward the inside of the bunker, and Don vick chased after him, but as soon as he ran into the bunker, several pistols were aimed at him: "Don't move!" "Leading the way were the other two colleagues who had assigned tasks to them. Donvik knew what he was planning and had to surrender.
Xu Jianguo, director of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, did not know how many people were still on the other side, but it was expected that there were still many old police accomplices, and because these people had weapons in their hands, it was possible for them to jump the wall in a hurry, so they asked Zou Feng, the sub-bureau chief, to openly assign tasks to Tang Wei and the three of them, so as not to arouse the suspicion of his accomplices. The old man who watched the door called Don vick, which was a strategy to "lure the snake out of the hole".
Tang Wei was secretly escorted to the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, and the director of the Zou Feng branch and the head of the criminal police personally interrogated Tang Wei, and Tang Wei knew that he could not hide, so he confessed to all the crimes. Zou Feng was surprised by his explanation, and the 17 criminals who participated in the planning and gang going to Guo Xuezhang's house to carry out robbery this time were all old Kuomintang policemen retained by the Xincheng substation, and the first offender of this gang was Cheng Daqi, the leader of the criminal investigation group, and the 7 policemen who went to the scene to investigate after Guo Xuezhang reported the case were also members of this robbery gang!
Director Zou Feng immediately reported to Xu Jianguo, director of the Public Security Bureau. Xu Jianguo attached great importance to it and immediately formulated a search and arrest plan. On this night, more than 50 operatives formed a special group to separate the operations and arrested the remaining 16 criminals at the Xincheng sub-bureau, the Bund and the criminals' homes!
At this point, the truth of this strange case has come out.
finale
In July 1949, the Shanghai Intermediate People's Court held a hearing on the "Cheng Daqi and Tang Wei Collective Robbery Case", Sha Qianli appeared in court as the lawyer of the plaintiff Guo Xuezhang, and 17 criminals also hired lawyers. In the end, Sha Qianli refuted the defendant's lawyer's view that the court demanded a light punishment and the presumption of innocence with eloquent facts, and suggested that the court severely punish the robbery group that violated the people's property, and 17 criminals were duly punished! It was also the last criminal case that Sha Qianli defended as a lawyer.
Cheng Daqi and Tang Wei and others, as policemen left over from the old society, were retained after the liberation of Shanghai, which is a fortunate thing, but they do not know how to cherish, try to use their identity to create chaos, for their own benefits, and finally punished by the law, harming others and harming themselves!