Yen Jui-sung and Woo Tsung-fang, the murderers of the singsong girl Lien Ying, paid the penalty for their crime at the Arsenal on Tuesday afternoon when they were led out and shot.
Guarded by a detachment of between 40 and 50 soldiers, the two men were taken from the Arsenal at about two o'clock and marched to a place about half an hour's distance away.
Here there was a large crowd, including many women of the same class as the murdered girl. The Shanghai Municipal Police were represented by several foreign and Chinese detectives.
After the eyes of the two wretched men had been blindfolded, the usual reading of their crime took place by a local official. A soldier then stepped up to Yen and placed a revolver against his head and fired. Tha same procedure was gone through with Woo.
Before Yen was taken out to be shot, there was a short Roman Catholic service, held at his own wish, in the Arsenal.
The shooting of these two men does not end the case. Another accomplice, Faung Joh-shin, has not yet been arrested and is at the present time being searched for by the police. As soon as he is arrested he will be accorded a separate trial and be dealt with according to law.
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