The Archive · 1936

THE DARROCH ROAD CRIME RE-ENACTED

Yih Hai-sen Taken to Scene of Nakayama's Murder Accompanied by the police lawyer and counsel for defence, Judge Hsiao Shih-feng of the First Special District Court, on Friday, at 2.15 pin, visited Darroch 'Road and witnessed a re-enactment of the murder of H, Nakayama, Japanese marine, on November' last yet The principal actor in the re-enact ment was Yih Hal-sen, alias "Little Cantonese," one of the three men accused of the murder, and who had admitted several times in the Chine court that he committed the crime, He showed to the Judge that day the spot where he said he had killed Nakayama and then described how he fled into an alleyway and threw away his weapon after the shooting. The Judge also visited the Moon Palace Hotel and the Cantonese society known as the Dong Riy! Yat Hui, 'A big crowd of spectators, including many Japanese, were attracted by the re-enactment, "but order was well maintained by the police,

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