Mother Sentenced to 20 Days for Killing Her Child A Chinese woman, who caused the death of her child by administering opium to alleviate pains which the youngster was suffering, was sentenced to 20 days imprisonment sus pended for two years.
The above appears In the Shanghai Municipal Police report for September, an unusual ease among the other items of more common crime such as murder, attempted murder, burglary, armed robberies, shop lifting, ote, 'A total of 1,625 cases of crime were dealt with by the Police, the Commissioner of" Police reports, showing a decrease of 172 as compared with that for August and an Increase of 189 a5 compared with the figure for the corresponding month last year. Arrests for crime committed show a decrease, 1,308 per-Sons having. been apprehended in September as against 1.373 August and 1498 in July. in addition, 73" persons were taken into custody for crimes committed in previous months. Eighty-seven persons were arrested on behalf of other aux thorities, OF the five reported cases of murder, the one that came most in the public eye was the murder of a Japanese sailor, who together with other naval ratings, was attacked from behind by an assassin who fired several shots. Two others were wounded. Three suspects were ar-Tested and one is still on remand, Armed robberies amounted to 28, teen more than the previous month and Increase of 21 compared with the corresponding month last year.
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