The Archive · 1915

An Unlucky Execution

She departed for Yangchow with a soldier, who soon got into. trouble, and shortly afterwards the Municipal Police got hold of the woman and brought her back to Shanghai. She in. formation that three of her robber friends had made a big haul of jewellery in Shanghai and had killed a foreign woman in so doing. One of these men, Huang Ts-ziang, was at Pootung, and he wae speodily captured. Another, Koo 82, after squandering the proceeds of the robbery, was discovered to have parted from his companions and to have committeed anothe* outrage on his own account, and or this he was pursued, captured, and executed by the Chinese at Fub-

His death was unfortunate in one sense, namely, that apparently ne had an intimate knowledge of the whole affair, other informants basing their stories on what they alleged he had told them in confidence.

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