The Shanghai City Magistrate Court at 8 o'clock on Saturday the purpose of continuing the of the prisoners charged with being concerned in the case of murder, arson and robbery in the Quan, was firat brought forth, and the may informed her that Shun-fu had stated that she, the nurse, was the originator of the crime, and told her had better confirm this confession, She said it was true that she had intended to purchase arsenic, but as for the rest of the affair, Shun-fu and Hu, the assistant cook, knew more about it than she did. The magistrate told the prisoner that it was useless for her to attempt to shift the blame onto the other people's shoulders, and threatened that if she were not very quick in confessing, torture will be applied. She anid the reason she had decided to commit this crime was that she could no longer endure the treatment which she received from her master and miatresss, and the coolie woman felt in the same way about it. She per-noded Shun-fu and her husband and husband of the coolie woman to oe to a tea shop with her, and Shun-fu brought the assistant cook, Hu, with him. It was there that they consulted together and planned the murder; that was on the 12th day of the 11th moon. On the day of the murder Hu brought the Tientsin man and the Tientsin man brought three others, wh ames wore unknown toher. As to the lime, that-was brought by Hn, id. was me scattered in the eyes of her master before they murdered him. The rest of the evidence was similar to that which ye at the previous examination, The magistrate asked her several times whether her husband and the husband of the coolie woman were implicated in the murder, and she persisted in the statement that they were not present when the deed was done, although she admitted that they were present at the tea shop when the crime was planned. The magistrate threatened her with the torture, but she ssid she could tell nothing but the truth if they tortured her to death. The magistrate, seeing that he could get nothing more out of the woman, sent hor back to prison in chains.
Shun-fu was then brought forth and examined, The magistrate ssid, " The nurse has confessed that on the 12th day of the 11th moon you and others were Arinking tes together at a certain tea shop. Is that true?" Shun-fu said it was true, and the magistrate told him to explain ers thing came about. Shun-fu ted that the musso had written to lih husband to come to Shanghai, and the cool:
brought her husband and they all on the 12th day of the 11th moon to drink tea at a small ton shop on the south side of the settlement, on Chi torrid tory. The nurse had asked him to buy and as ho had not acceded to her request they pla shop to plunder the house, but having not the slightes ition to murder the master and mistress, Hu, the assistant cook, brought in the other bad and on the 16th day all the conspire tors came to the house and were admitted by Bu, At first they intended bind the mester and mistress with ropes while they plundered the hou the nurse cried out in a very fierce maniier that unless the master and mistress were put to death, she would report the whole matter to the police, They were thus placed in a fix, and so thinking more of their own aafoty than of right and justice, they scattered lime in the master's the Tientsin man rubbed it in as to totally blind him. Then prisoner, had a knife given to him put the master to death whilst others killed the mistress. The husbands coolie woman and the nurse were in the time, but they did not in the murder, and they knew about it, The master's h cut off by Hu, rds of te floor: The booty was th in the manner which he had d the previous hearing,—Shun-after having made thi back to prison. account, of her brought forward, and the magistrate adjourned the Court.
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