Yang Kyung-chun, said to have planted a book used to conceal a pistol in the house of Yang Ven-tao, and thus to have implicated the latter in Mr, Nakayama's murder, appeared in the First Spectal' District Court, on Aug. 19, as a witness, and strongly: denied: the allegation, The wine who had been sought by the prosecution for many months, suddenly communicated with the Settlement Police on Aug. 18. According to. Mr, Paul ¥. Ru, Assistant Municipal Advocate, he escaped from Shanghai after he had heard that his life was threatened by members of the Tung Yih Club, of which one of the ae-cused, Yang Ven-tao, was a member. He returned to Shanghai to clear up the matter, so that he might continue his work here, Afler an hour's questioning, the Court ordered that prints of the wit ness's fingers and palms be taken, and compared with those found the book. No date was fixed for the next hearing, The witness told the Court that he was aged §3 years, and a native of
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