The Archive · 1936

HONGKEW "DOCTORS" CAUGHT

Arrested by Wayside Officers

After Exhaustive Search After more than three weeks! exhaustive search, detectives. Wayside Station rested Chang Wen-wu? and Mi Liang Yue-mei, the two "doctors" who had dis appeared before the discovery on September 10 of the bodies of a Chi-hose man and woman concealed under the flooring of the "Hongkew Women's Hospital," 290 Chaoufoong Road, near Tongshah Road. According to the police, the two suspects have: confessed to the crime, "The suspects were found in a room at No, 13, Lane 455, off Rue de Conty at 8 am. So. far as it could be ascertained, this is the ftth place they have slayed at since they moved out of the small "hospital." The names of the two victims, according to the tuspeets, are Yue Keng-sun and Miss Loh Alice, both of whom were about 30 years of age and natives of Szochuer The two suspects were said to have confirmed the police information that operations had been performed at the Institution, 'The woman victim wag dying following such an operation and as the man threatened (0 take drastic action against the two doctors, he was liven an angesthetle fon the' pretext' of his giving f blood transfusion to the woman victim, When found under the flooring, the man had a rope and a band-ge round his neck and the woman a Aight bandage, as well as a gag oF chloroform-pad in her mouth, The alleged operation was performed during the frst few days of September and the two victims died inthe early hours of September 4 The bodies, packed with a, quantity of lime, were concealed under the ground floor of the main room. The Suspects, it was said, evacuated on September 7, when the odour became foo strong, "According to the police, both the suspects had served as nurses for three years before they started practise in 1930. The police have fse Toeated the wife of the man suspect.

's**court case on page 30.

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