Weihaiwei, Jan. 16, On the 8th instant Liu Chang-te, aged 23, of the village Talanssu, was brought to trial before Sir Peter Grain for the murder of his mother on November 27. The following residents formed the jury, Messrs, H. L. Beer, A. Clark, Clark, R. E. Cullen and 8. W. Sun; and the evidence for and against the accused was put forward with perfect impartiality by the Crown Advocate, Mr. A. G, Mossop. Major Colchester-Wemyss, Junior District Officer, acted as Registrar of the Court, The village household, consisting of father, mother, accused, the eldest son, @ daughter of about thirteen and a small boy aged four, was a most unhappy one, owing mainly to the bad conduct and general moral degeneracy of the son and heir, The witnesses against him were they of his own house: throughout the vill- ly" age there was none to say a good word for him, Lia Hsili, the father, stated that on the day in question he went out after the morning meal to collect. fuel and his younger daughter went' vut with her small Drother to play. Accused and his mother remained in the hou Returning in the early afternoon passed his son at. the main stree! entrance to his house and erossed the yard to the living rooms at the back. He called to his wife but there was no answer and he searched for her. Under the house there: was a cellar approached by a short tunnel with a stone cover and used for storing vegetables in cold weather. He noticed the stone cover hind been rewoved and discovered his wite's body had been placed in the tunnel in a sitting posture. He summoned his nephew and next door neighbour, Liu Chang-sheng, to hep, and together they lifted. the body, which was still warm. He another nephew to call his: daughter, who ved in the city at no great distant Im the meantime no work: he frequently stole family property to provide himself with funds: in consequence violent qua is, were common: his son had
to kill them.
his parents and had threaten-Lia Chang-sheng confirmed his uncle's statements. Quarrels were frequent and violent: he had on occasions intervened to protect the parents from their son's violence: more than once he had heard the Intter threaten to beat his mother to death.
Both the sisters appeared as witnesses and corroborated avidenco already given as to their brother's conduct towards their parents.
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