The Municipal Polive are searching the Settlement for a young Chinese, Jui Tsong-ling, 23 years of age, whose somewhat tarnished career eventuated in tragedy at the: Great Eastern Hotel on Sunday. About the end of March of this year, he was released from prison rifler having served a sentence for embezzlement, and last week he came under the notice of the police again in connexion with an incident at his brother's house in Carter Road. On this occasion he is alleged to have demanded a sum of money and a gold watch, supporting his demand by a threat to shoot his brother's wife, and the money and watch were' promptly handed over. The black sheep of the family, as he was then describvd, disappeared, to come into prominence again on Sunday.
It appears that last Friday, Jui 'Tsong-ling went to the Great Eastern Hotel, accompanied by a young Chinese woman, about 22 years of ago, and registered as "Tsang Pah-ling'? a merchant. About noon on Sunday he was walking out of the hotel when a Chinese clerk, observing that he appeared to be taking final leave of the establishment, suggested that if would be a convenient moment for paying the bill. The yeply was that his wife was upstairs in her room and that ho would return shortly, and with this assurance he walked out of the hotel. No further notice was taken of the incident until about 7 o'clock in the evening, when one of the servants went yo room No. 32, which the couple had occupied, and found the woman lying dead on the floor. She was wounded in the left arm and thigh, apparently by a single shot, and a towel had been tied round her neck. On the floor there was found a Webley-Scott -32 calibre automatic pistol, with one miss-fire cartridge in the breach and one live round in the magazine. Three miss-fire cartridges and one shell were lying on the floor near by.
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