The Archive · 1928

THE HOU FOK TERRACE 'TRAGEDY

Judgment was delivered in the Provisional Court on Monday, by Judge Tseng and Mr. S, 1. Burdett, in the case in which N. Skolnik, an 18 year-old Russian, was charged with causing the death of a riesha coolie in an alleyway off North Szechuen Road early last_month, when accused, in retaliation for an attack made on his young brother, struck the deceased on the jaw, causing him to fall and fracture his skull. Accused was fined $270 and ordered to pay $250, compassionate rant to the family of the deceased coolie,

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