Mixed Court Proceedings:
Accused Sent to Arsenal for Execution "An attempt to murder has been clearly proved. The penalty is execution, but the sentence may be commuted to one of imprisonment if there are any extenuating circumstances. There seems to be none in your case" said Mr.-A. J. Martin at the Mixed Court on Monday addressing Li Dah-sung (42), school teacher, the Anhui man who was arrested on Saturday night for the attempted murder of Gen. Hsu Kuo-liang, Director-General of the Shanghai and Woosung. Constabulary. The accused was~found guilty on the charge of attempting to murder the General and ordered to be handed over to the Chinese authorities for execution.
Mr. J. Em, Lemiere appeared to defend the prisoner and Dr. O. Fischer watched the case on half of the Chinese authorities.
The first witness was the General's chauffeur who stated that his master, on coming out of the bath house near the Avenue Edward VIL and Yunnan Road corner, asked him to bring the car along. Tha General's servant opened the door of the car. Before the door had been closed witness heard a shot. He turned round and heard a frightened shout from the General. "J ya," he exclaimed, and put his hand on his body near the thigh. The servant then chased someone along Yunnan Road. Witness joined in the chase, telling the servant to keep to the side of the road, while he ran along the centre. During the chase the man three more shots. The servant fell down, wounded. Witness kept up the chase calling out "Jong dau" (robbers). Prisoner turned round to shoot at) witness. "I dodged behind an electric light pole," witness continued. "A policeman blow his whistle and joined in the chase. At the corner of Yunnan and Pakhoi Roads accused again turned round to shoot, but I think he had used all his cartridges."
Witness then told a Chinese P. C. to shoot, which he did, this causing the man to look round. The Chinese constable fired again. On hearing the shop accused fell down, but Reld his pistol to his shoulder while looking at his pursuers. Neither witness nor the other man dared go up to him, but fortunately a Sikh and a Chinese constable-came up behind him and arrested him. Later on in the evening witness went to Shantung Road Hospital, to see the General, and told him the assassin had been taken. Gen. Hsu looked very pale, but witness saw no blood on him, nor were there any bloodstains on the car.
A Chinese police constable also described the chase. Prisoner ran north, closely followed by witness
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