Echoes of the death of Mr. Kung Yen-yn, found drowned in the Whangpoo with a wound in his Jmeck on August 6 last, were in the U. S. Court for China before Judge Milton 'D. Purdy on Jan. 18, when the wife and eldest daughter of deceased brought action against the Asia Life Insurance Ca, for the payment on an accident hey $20,000, cost and dis fof the action and for such further fand other velvet that the court might deem right and just After the heating of evidence of witnesses, the case wax "adjourned Until 10 a.m. to-day for arguisent. wputd'have to clean it's.
teat a he had to go shoot AP soeeph Tuck of anes Chinese find: Bei appeared Zor plainti and 'Me. room, About twenty minutes. later, into remained ting inher ed LSS. Pani, she heard a shot, and rushing. to for the defendant company. the bathroom door, she saw "her fon lying bleeding' on the " floor. cine gation was brought by Mrs. She aalds "Claude, what' have you ung Yeh-tseng and Miss Yoh-tsing as administratrixes of done?" She received no answer, the state of the deceased, as the and, due. to the 0° that she aid not! "enter, the bathroom, saw defendants refused to pay the claim on a "premier" Asia Life Ca, acci-nothing ¢?se'in the room.
She cuffed to some neighbours, ent policy' issued on Janaary 6, 1932, The defence holds. that. the resident in the same house, who, claim is not valid, under clause 17 fter some delay in telephoning, of the policy which excepts wounds managed to get an ambulance, or death by suicide or the action Hyndman was then taken away to of bandits, robbers, highwaymen or ie hospital. "She knew of no coa kidnappers, also that the plaintiffs won why her son should take his have not submitted the claim to ife, he had no worries, at the time faxbitration" as entailed "in the was selling batteries on a commis-policy where disagreement sion basis, and had intended "to on point of fact occurs, and also start work in an office on the first, that plaintiffs have not" submitted He bad no enemies, and had never to defendant affirmative proof of threatened to take his own life. loss as. required under the' policy.
Yecogmised the writing on the Mr. Franklin, in outlining the Totter as that of her son, Claude case, stated that Mr. Kung lett his Hyndman, house at 8 pam, on August 4 last, Detective-Sergeant D. Watson after playing with his children, for Haid that at about 9.30 pin, on whom id promised. to fetch he night in question a houxcoil as they were came tothe station with the He also had said. that information that, a foreigner " had toing to see a friend. Mr. ahet himself at 16 Kungping Road. was seen, at 10 p.m.
After arranging for an ambulance by Messrs. 'T. to call "at the address he went Yung, both friends. there and saw a. foreigner lying latter he was looking fora face downwards in the. bashvoom, friend, and also made an appoint rifle at his. side. " Although iment ith Mr. Yung for the follow-Yas bleeding badly, he was still ing day. warnt and breathing.
The next morning he had not 'The butt of the rifle, continued turned home, so Mrs. Kung inform-the "detective-sergeant,' was at his ed the Shanghai Municipal Police, feet. An empty cartridge was the Public Safety Bureau and the found in the breech, but otherwise Water police, as well as his friend: the rife was empty. The bathroom Mr. Kung was" well' known as was on a level lower than that of Bnancial couitrolier of the National the landing without, and a fight of six steps led from the bathroom On Avigust 6, the Public Safety Mléor to the bathroom floor. The Buren reported. that the body body was facing the door, and, by tracing the course of the "bullet, during the afternoon, near had been found in the, Whanpoo Which was found in the wall behind, den Bridge, and taken to the Zang eceased appeared to have placed Foo Yuan Dong, a charitable in= the butt of the rifle on the" stop stitution " which amongst other evel with his chest and pulled the things "maintained "a. watch for trigger. The fact that {he butt Dodies in the river and buried them was. lying at his fect could be accounted for by the fact that after here was nobody else fo do 50 next morning an inquiry was he shot hiniself he might have. still held by: the Procurator of the Nane the rifle in his hands, and in iao District Court. atr. Kung was falling thrown or dropped it into found fo have a wound in the right the position it was subsequently fide' of the neck and his stomach fount in. held "water. "On him was found a Mr. C. H. Waines, returning the silver dollar and some small change Berdict, said: "I find that Claude and some visiting cards. The ext bes 'Hyndman committed suicide on the morning Mrs. Kung was examined night of January 15. There is no bby the Court and" her' testimony €videnco to show the state of his taken. mind at the time."
On. August 11 some" friends of Mr, Kung, from the ¥.MLCA., went Nantao with Drs. Wu and IE.
Desertion Charge Di missed Patrick, the latter the doctor A charge of desertion against the Asia Lite Insurance "Ca, to james Dower fell vnrough on unexpected. Obstacle was Perform a private autopsy, but an jan. 21 in H. M. Police Court provided through lack of prosee'=—"Tne by the Chinese "police, had ship having left port, there was no previously given permission, and tone to represent the owners in the autopsy" did not take plac Shanghai.
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