Headless Body with Both Legs Cut A. gruesome discovery was made by a foreign sergant of the Shanghai Municipal Police, on August 11, near the Shanghai" Rowing Club, when he opened a black' wicker suitcase and found in ita mutilated body not yet identified, The basket was found by Sergeant A. E, Self, in Soochow Road, sharily before 8.30 pin. It was taken to the Central "Police Station, where its contents were found to be a headless body, with the legs severed at the thighs.
No clues as to identity have been discovered bub the basket was earefully gone over for finger-prints, Ap= Parently it had been dropped by the Side of the road shortly before' Ser= geant Self discovered it, The Inquest A verdict of murder by some persons or persons unknown "was returned by Procurator Soong of the First District Court at the conclusion the inquest held on August 12, Although the Procurator was told that, according to a doctor, the body was' that of a Chinese female, a request' was made for a further examination in order to determine whether the body was that of a foreigner or of a Chinese. The name, age, ele, of the deccused were not mentioned at the inquest, ACtor returning his verdict, the Procurator ave instructions to the Shanghai Mynicipal Police to arrest the person or persons responsible for the crime,
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