Hyui Yoong-sai, unemployed, was charged with being concerned together with another man already under sentence and two others not yet in custody in a murder in Thorburn Road in_July, 1918. It was stated that the men were all engaged at the time in trafficking in women. A dispute arose between the deceased and one of his companions over a woman who is now married and living in Hongkong. During the quarrel, the deceased was fatally injured. The police said that there were now no witnesses available, all having left, Shanghai and so they had no option but to withdraw the charge. Accused was accordingly released.
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