A murder was committed on board the Japanese steamer Tenshin Maru in. the New Dock on Tuesday night. It appears that a number of the crew were sitting on the fore-hatch, when a quarrel arose between two of them, and one man suddenly:|drew his sheath knife and stabbed the other in three places. Immediately after the deed was committed the murderer made off, and came across to Shanghai where he spent the night. Thinking probably that his crime was less serious than it was, ko returned to the ship on Wednesday morning, to(find that the man he had stabbed was dead." He was at once seized and handed over to the Japanese authorities, by whom a preliminary investigation will be held, after which the man will be sent across to Japan for trial,
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