Sequel to a Gambling Quarrel Evidene was heard by Messrs. Allmam and Yui at the Mixed Court on Wednesday in connexion with charges of muder and complicity im crime against four Chinese, arising from a murder committed in April near Fukien and Canton Reads. Superin tendent Vaughan prosecuted and was assisted by Mr. K. E, Newman, who had been engaged by the widow for that purpose, while Messrs. G. D. Musso, J. Em. Lemiére and J. W. Schoenfeld were for the defence.
Det.-Sgt. Henry, in outlining what the police had done, said that one of the accused had made a voluntary written statement which had implicated the other three and that an outside witness had made a similar assertion further, that after the suspected men had been arrested an identification parade had been held at Central Station in which two of the accused out of an assortment of 11 had been pointed out by the widow. With reference to the fourth accused, he said that he was a member of a famous gang of loafers and that for this reason it was difficult for the police to produce witnesses, who had great fears for their lives, but that from information gathered by his informers, it was quite certain that he had actually engaged, the other three to commit the crime. All four wher arrested were found in the same room in w lodging house engaged for the night only.
The Chinese constable on duty was the first witness for the prosecution, and he -stated that, on the morning of April 27 about 5 o'clock, he noticed a crowd in alleyway near the corner of Fukien and Canton Roads and upon investigation found he murdered man with what seemed a slight wound in the head. He was certain that when he had made the rounds an hour previously everything was all right at this point.
Chu Ting-sz, widow of the deceased, living at No. 102 Thibet Road, stated that about three o'clock on the fatal morning two men wakened her husband and herself and wanted to speak with him. He dressed and went down stairs and they talked for about quarter of an hour, whereupon she hailed them, wanting her husband to return to bed, but she was answered by the men, who said that the three were going down town _together.. They spoke in a Shanghai-Ningpo dialect. After about an hour she took a long gown of deceased's and went to the restaurant where they had said they would be going, but found the crowd and her dead husband. She further said that her husband had form-. erly been a seafaring man, but that recently he had a small shop, above which there was some-. knew that fortly before his times gambling—mah jongg. She
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