Cherchez la femme applied in the ease of an attempted murder on Monday. The lady preferred the attentions of a Chapei_ ricsha-coolie to those which she had neon receiving for some time from native employee of a Japanese hotel in Seward Road. He_ lost his position, and the course of true ove then took the proverbial turning, though it would be a journalistic exaggeration to do more than state that the events happened simultaneously. Be that as it may the lover left Shanghai and did not return until a month ago. It was then he discovered that his inamorata. preferred her riesha-coolie to her cook.
The scene of the story is then transferred to Hongkew Police Station to which came the female of the species to exhibit her wounds and display a collection of sanguinary garments. Shs was sent to St. Luke's Hospital for treatment and five minutes Jater Hongkew Compound was visited Chinese constable who bad sted a man he had seen throw-a knife into Hongkew Creek near Kashing Road ridge. The constable had mad2"no mistake for the prisoner stated he had intended to kill the woman just sent to hospital, borrowing the knife from another cook in the hotel in which he was formerly employed for that specific purpose—pleasant fellow. Tt is only fitting that with a woman in the case there should also be a little wine: the knife-user admitted to having imbibed more than he ought to have. He was placed behind the iron bars until his case is tried.
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