The Archive · 1936

First Special Court

Japanese Marine's Murder SMP. v. YANG YEN-TAO, YI ANSON 'AND CHOW 2EU-¥OONG Counsr: Mr. Paul ¥. Ru, Assistant!

Municipal Advocate, for Before Judge Chien tung-vili A third man was charged with being concerned in the murder of H, Nakayama, Japanese marine, "on, Darroch Road, on November 9, last year: Yih Liaison, alias "Little Cantonese." reiterated that he shot the Japanese marine in order 10 8 disturbance in Hongkew: and Judge "Chien Hung-yih announced that he, the police lawyer and counsel for defence would witness a reconstruction of the Darroch Road crime next afternoon. These were the developments in the First Special District Court last Wednesday afternoon when the hearing was resumed of the case against Yang Ven-tao and Yih Hal-sen, both Cantonese, accused of H. Nakayama's murder.

At the outset of that day's hearing Mr, Paul ¥. Ru, Assistant Muntel Advocate, prosecuting, told the Ju that during the period of remand, Chow Zen-yoong, alias Chow Yao-yung, who had been implicated in Nakayama's murder by "Little Ca tonese," was arrested in the "Continental" Dancing Hall, Ningpo Road, and he likewise was' charged with murder, "Mr. Ru added that a bullet, which was found by police near the. scene of the crime, had been examined by experts but no trace of blood on it could be found. At the station, the newly-arrested man admitted he was a member of the Cantonese society known as Dong Nyi Yat Hui, Dut denied having taken part in the shooting, Yih Hai-sen, who changed his statement each time he the court, made statement that day. In reply to the Judge, he stated that the motive of killing the Japanese marine was to create a disturbance in Hongkew. This, he told the Judge, would increase the number of members of the society of which he was a member and enhance the induence of his society. How the murder of a Japanese could increase his society's influence the prisoner did not disclose, despite the Judge's questioning on this point. The prisoner repeated that the plot'to Kill a Japanese was mapped out by the Koreans and he fired the shot that killed Nakayama,

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