Canton, Sept. 18.
Notwithstanding that the board of inquiry appointed by the District Court had found that Lai Hang was a suicide, the family of the deceased has started a private prosecution against Chang Li-tsai. Chang, they charge, murdered the dead mi To the minds of the investigating strafes, the proof was convinethe course of the bullet was upward, as it would be were the wound self-inflicted. A ballet fired by an assassin would have ploughed straight through the brain along a fine parallel with the grounds could not have taken a slanting ursa. But the prosecution is try-1 to show that the hole made where the lead entered the body is small, whereas if Lai snuffed out his own life, since he would have fired at such short-range, the bullet-hole would have been much larger.
Tt was suggested by the prosecution that even if Chang Li-tsai not fire the fatal shot, he must be adjudged guilty of murder that he drove Lai Hang to commit this act. Money had been withdrawn from the Ka Naam Tong by Chang, and misappropriated, it is charged. Pact had been spent in the purchase of the Venezia, a steamer which was land he will be given a receipt which he can hand to the landlord in lieu -of the next payment of] rent. In the ease of shops and other properties used for commerial purposes, the levy will be equal to two months' rental. This sum will be collected from the occupier and he will be given two receipts, cone of which he can pass on to the landlord im lieu of rental, but the other will be his contribution. These receipts will be exchanged for Treasury notes.
Martial Inw is still enforced in! the city for a few hours each night, and proclamations have been posted warning the people that the police are entitled to enter houses and check the persons found there with the lists filed with the police.
therefore very difficult to offer lity to transient guests.
A new notification states that law will be enforced on the river from a point above Hanyang, the Liuchiamiao midnight to 5 and no craft, large or small, be allowed to move without special permission. The Consular body has been asked to warn foreigners of] this restriction. These precautions id with the large number of executions are deemed necessary for the public safety. Six men were executed on Thursday and seven yesterday, two of the number being over forty and all the rest in the twenties. to have run'between Hongkong and Canton, and part was sunk in Kuangsi mining venture. The mining money is said to have been paid over to Lui Wun-yirn, Governor of Kuangsi just before the latter's assassination. Governor Lui was shot to death on June 15 and about two days thereafter Lai Hang died.
The unti death of Lui Wun-yirn, it has been suggested, may have caused Chang and Lai to fear that the misuse of Ka Naam Tong funds would be discovered. Be that as it may, the failure of the Ven-exit to make money from the very start did rate such a danger, and the family of Lai Hang claim' that they have in their possession a letter to Lai from Chang asking the formier to try to make. it appear that the money that had been taken was a Ka Naam Teng invest. ment and not an investment of
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