You have be ted of murder within the International Settlement, You have confessed your guilt. Therefore, under the Taw you are to be pu death, and Tam pre your last wishes you care to make"
Judge Kuh looked down from the bench at the Provisional Court fon Dee, 19 on the first of the two accused who were awaiting the carrying out of the supreme sentence, The first Sz Ah-clu, the confessed and boasting killer of two Chinese detectives in 1925, together with other admissions of crimes that would place his name well in the forefront of desperadoes of 1 vicious kind, who had evaded One of the fall vers was a British Tommy, and recalled the exeeutin a spy that took place during the war, in the Tow Nothing to it", he said, "They only took the hands that had been across. And if we didn't want to go, we didn't have te, Just marched in, halt, stand Toad, present, and fire, Tt Another had seen an electrocution discussed, th meanwhile we rolled nearer the sight that was to come. we swerved ¢T the inthe car behind "the little tent of blue call the sky?) two ahead knew canur at the Cou! fat did they know? the one two months eetives located and arrester A Model Prison him, became eloquent in the short space of time allotted him in the towed courtroom.
He was indeed a killer. He was everything the police said of him. he at all anxious for lenicr Stood in the dock, a short thin figure dressed in an ill-fitting European suit with a pocket handkerchief and bright yellow shoes completing the picture. It was dificult to imagine We enteral an unpaved tane and off on the right appeared the high His of our destination. Turning. and tw another rou ate in the high whitewashed wall, about was slid, the gate swung ard We entered the Second Kiangsu Provisional Prison. A crowd was wait ing fully 50 intent on the business fat hand and as we climbed forth from the automobile the prison of-priest clambered into the car. There ere murmurs from inside and the court interpreter who had accompanied us told of Buddhist rites going on within.
Then a table was brought from somewhere and placed facing a small triangle of ground. A cloth was spread over its top and a magistrate sat behind. When the meal in the van was finished the first man was led forth.
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