Author: Zhu Bingdong
At the turn of the spring and summer of 1953, a number of cases of burglary occurred in the eastern part of Quxian County, Zhejiang Province, and in the north of Baishui Township, Shuangqiao Township, Lianhua Township, Gaojia township and other places, which caused panic and discussion among the people, and caused a lot of pressure on the local public security organs. The local public security police station is understaffed, and there is no clue to the investigation of the case. He Congzheng, who was already somewhat famous for handling cases, was transferred by the Quxian Public Security Bureau as a firefighter to investigate the case, and He Congzheng, with the cooperation of the Zhangtan and Duze police stations, began to solve the case.
He Congzheng, head of the investigation team of the Quxian County Public Security Bureau
He Congzheng and the public security police of the relevant police station investigated the scene together, visited the owners of various cases, and learned some valuable clues.
First, the theft methods are roughly the same, all of them are dug into the room, but the size of the hole is inconsistent.
There is a cave about the size of 3 bricks and is only accessible to children. All that was stolen here was cigarettes and some change. There are 5 robbery holes that are the size of 5 bricks, and more property is stolen. There are also two robbery holes, more than 7 bricks in size, and the stolen materials are not only cloth, but also grain, with a total of about 100 catties.
He Congzheng and colleagues analyzed that the opening of the 3 bricks is likely to be a large and a small thief, perhaps a father and son, or a thief with a small one. Big thieves dig holes, and small thieves enter the house to steal. Of the 5 brick-sized thefts, there were 4 cases of more stolen things, 1 of which was discovered by the owner of the house and the burglar escaped.
In these 5 cases, they analyzed that the 5 brick-sized hole thieves could enter and exit, and the number of stealing things was large, indicating that there was more than one person. In the other 2 cases, the robbery cave was the size of 7 bricks, indicating that the thieves had poor technology.
Second, the 5 cases of theft of 5 brick-sized cave openings have a clear feature, that is, from the mouth of the cave to the intersection, they are inserted with incense, the kind used for worship.
This kind of incense is inserted at about 1 meter apart, and there are bamboo branches discarded at the mouth of the cave. This is obviously after the thieves have dug the opening of the hole, they first use bamboo branches to reach in and sweep to detect the movement in the room. The incense sticks from the mouth of the cave to the intersection, and the thieves are marking the escape route, so as not to lose their way in the dark. This is enough to prove that thieves are veterans.
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Third, after the theft of the "Ganhe Cloth Shop" in Gao's hometown, the thief smoked on a mound about 50 meters away from the robbery cave to peek into the surrounding environment, but accidentally lost the cigarette bag (containing tobacco), leaving clues and evidence for cracking the case.
Based on the above analysis, He Congzheng went to the Public Security Department of the Quzhou Public Security Department to consult relevant information on the distribution of thieves and the characteristics of their modus operandi in Quzhou. From the confession of Ye Desong, a thief who has been executed, He Congzheng found that he had received many apprentices, and his modus operandi was similar to the serial theft that has occurred now.
He Congzheng once again worked with colleagues at the Zhangtan and Duze police stations to analyze and study the direction and scope of the investigation of the case. It was found that within the scope of the theft case, only the two townships of Duze and Xiakou did not have the same case, and there was a taste of "rabbits do not eat nest grass", much like the stealing habits of the great thief Ye Desong, and the method of digging holes and the technology of entering and leaving the "5 brick holes" were also similar to Ye Desong's methods.
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Based on this, the investigators determined that the focus of the investigation was in Houye Village, Xiakou Township, because this was ye Desong's former residence, and it focused on Ye Desong's thieves. But in Houye Village, who is Ye Desong's apprentice? Thieves are a disgraceful profession, and parents and siblings may not know about it.
He Congzheng and Director Wu of the Duze police station repeatedly discussed, believing that the magic weapon of offering a "cigarette bag" could open the gap. The two went to Houye Village, Xiakou Township, to hold a forum for village cadres to discuss the issue of public order in the village. At the forum, He Congzheng took out the thieves' lost cigarette bags, packed the tobacco leaves in a big way, and smoked them. At that time, cadres and urban people generally smoked cigarettes, and farmers generally smoked cigarette bags.
The village cadres all laughed and said: Comrade He is so thrifty? No cigarette smoking tube (dialect)!
He Congzheng said with a serious heart: I have been smoking since I was 17 years old, and I have been using this pipe.
The director of the peasant association took He Congzheng's cigarette bag, looked at it carefully, and said to the village cadres present: You see, Comrade He's root is really like Ye Lin (pseudonym), it is very similar!
The village cadres passed it around and said in unison: Very similar! It's really like...
He Congzheng immediately picked up the words that the country is so big, and there are more objects with the same name and surname and similarities, which well covers up the past and shifts the topic.
The two returned to the police station satisfactorily, and immediately found a Li mou in Houye Village, who usually had a good relationship with Ye Lin, and educated, arranged, and monitored Ye Lin. Ye Lin made any moves, report it immediately.
One morning a week later, Li Mou came to duze police station to report: Ye Lin went to the Tangyan Village Supply and Marketing Cooperative in Baishui Town in the morning to buy something, bought 2 pounds of red dates, and wanted to buy a piece of cloth to make clothes, there was no money in his pocket, so he went home.
After listening to the report, He Congzheng and Director Du Zewu analyzed: In the original "5 brick hole" theft case, the only theft that did not succeed was the case of the Supply and Marketing Cooperatives in Tangyan Village. Although the robbery hole has been filled, but it has not yet been painted, the thief is likely to judge that the people of the supply and marketing cooperatives have relaxed their vigilance and are ready to strike again. If Ye Lin is a suspect in the "Five Brick Cave" theft case, then he is likely to step on the spot again, and buying cloth is just an excuse.
Everyone analyzes that Ye Lin is likely to carry out theft again that night, and the thieves are optimistic about it, and will not delay, because no one knows what will happen tomorrow. This is a rare opportunity to catch a thief! Together with Director Wu of the Duze police station, He Congzheng formulated a preliminary plan for the arrest of the thieves.
In the afternoon of the same day, He Congzheng, Director Wu, and most of the people in the institute rushed to Baishuitangyan Village, first quietly surveyed the supply and marketing cooperatives and their surrounding sites, and then went to Baishui Township to hold a secret meeting to arrange a plan of action for catching the thieves. In addition to the 6 people from the He Congzheng and Duze police stations, more than 10 people attended the meeting, including township chiefs, township public security officers, and secretaries and directors of the supply and marketing cooperatives branch.
There are two action plans, one is to be captured indoors after the thieves dig the wall and enter the room; the other is that the thieves escape from the hole and are captured outdoors. The arrest force was arranged in this way: 6 people were arranged externally, and He Congzheng and the township public security officer were responsible for commanding; indoors, Director Wu arranged and commanded, leading 4 people to guard the ambush. After the meeting, after dinner, everyone entered their respective areas of responsibility at 6:30 p.m.
10 people, each with a flashlight, hid it and began to wait for the thieves to appear. Squatting was boring, and hours passed. By 12 in the middle of the night, many "ambushers" felt that the thieves would not come, and waited in vain. He Cong's political leaders wait patiently, persist to the end, and do things from beginning to end.
In the second half of the night, it is easy to get tired, and some people start to get confused...
At about 2:30 a.m., suddenly, a figure sneakily appeared in the right corner of the supply and marketing agency, which was the location of the previous robbery cave. At this moment, the spirit of all the "participants in the war" was lifted. Shadow bent down and began to dig the hole, and within 3 minutes, the hole was dug open again. When the thief dug the hole, he could hardly hear the sound.
After the hole was dug, the thief did not drill in, but first put his legs in it and swept back and forth, presumably to test the movement and explore the way. Seeing the silence, he withdrew his legs, took out a handful of things from his chest, lit them with matches, and blew them out, a handful of stars. The thief started from the mouth of the cave and bent down to insert Mars into the ground little by little, he Congzheng understood that this thief was inserting incense, and first arranged the escape route. Insert one stick every one meter or two meters until it reaches the main road, with a total length of about 200 meters.
After inserting the incense, the thief retreated to the shadow not far from the entrance of the cave, sat on a stone and began to smoke, the cigarette butt flashed and disappeared, obviously, the thief continued to observe the movement. At this time, He Congzheng took advantage of the thief sitting at the entrance of the cave and could not see all the incense, and quietly moved the last 20 incense sticks to the position...
After the thieves finished smoking, they quickly burrowed into the hole in the wall.
He Cong's political opinion time has arrived, the flashlight in his hand flashed out, and the people who were ambushed outside turned on the flashlight and swung to the supply and marketing cooperative, indicating that they could act.
After Director Wu saw the signal in the room, he immediately gave a loud order: Catch the thief! The ambushed police in the supply and marketing cooperatives also shouted in unison: Catch the thief! Catch the thief...
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As soon as the thief heard Director Wu's shout, he immediately turned around and drilled out of the thief's hole, and quickly fled along the incense on the ground.
The public security personnel who were ambushed inside the supply and marketing cooperatives opened the back door and rushed out to chase and shout: Catch the thief! Catch the thief! The ambush personnel outside also shouted in unison: Catch the thief! Catch the thief...
The thief was so frightened that he gave birth to 4 legs and ran all the way along the incense. The police who arrested him made a gesture to chase after him, but the speed was not fast. The thief just watched the incense on the ground run, not wanting to "pounce" into the water, the thief shouted "Help!" Cuckoo...... Help! Gollum..."
On the shore, about 10 flashlights brushed the thieves struggling in the water. The thief fluttered in the pond and shouted: Spare your life! I'll never steal again, Gollum... Save me! The two policemen who had been waiting at the edge of the pond for a long time quickly went into the water, dragged the thief who was struggling in the water to the shore, and handcuffed the thief who looked like a chicken in the soup, and this thief was Ye Lin.
At this time, nearby farmers also lit torches to help catch thieves. Seeing that the thief had been caught, some young people were furious and said: Come! Let's take a beating and deflate! He Congzheng immediately stopped it.
That night, they did not rest and interrogated them all night.
Ye Lin began to pretend to be honest, took the initiative to confess 9 cases, said that he had done it himself, and pointed to the sky and said that he had only done it 9 times. He Congzheng They knew that Ye Lin was playing tricks as soon as they heard it, and there were more than 9 cases of digging holes and entering the house? After reprimanding him, he threw ye lin's lost cigarette bag on the table.
Ye Linlian shouted: Guilty, guilty. I confess, I confess. He obediently confessed to 23 theft cases, as well as the situation of several of his apprentices. During the interrogation, He Congzheng also solved the doubts in solving the case.
Q: When did you start learning to steal?
A: I began to learn from my uncle Ye Desong when I was 12 years old.
Q: How did you learn it?
A: Start going with him to see how he dug holes, how he inserted incense, how he escaped.
Q: Why doesn't the digging of the hole make a sound?
A: Soak in water or pee first, and soak the brick cracks.
Q: You stole a lot of money, why don't you buy a flashlight? If you don't put incense, you won't stick it in the water today.
Answer: The rules of digging holes and sneaking away are all taught by the master. The master said that inserting incense is safer than running with a flashlight, and the flashlight has light and will attract people to chase; incense is a code, and people don't know. I stole this for decades, and the disciples taught it that way, and there was never a problem, and it was this time that I was deceived!
After the end of the case, He Congzheng wrote a summary report on the case, entitled "Pulling thieves into the water, catching thieves in the water". This year, He Congzheng was awarded the second class meritorious service.
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