The Archive · 1937

Gruesome Find in Drain

'Among the bodles removed to the Public Mortuary on Maren 8 for! Inquest was the head and. a part! of the body of a deceased child, name' and address unknown, which was found lying in a cement concrete @rainage pipe of Meichow Road, near Ward "Road, by CP.C. No, 3185 attached to Yangtszepoo Police Station, Police evidence during the inquest was to the effect that, afler the gruesome discovery, the detectives made Inquiries among the straw hut occupants, but no information was obtained to establish the identity of the: deceased. "It appeared certain, however, that the decomposed head had been bitten by wild dogs.

"The Procurator who conducted the inquest ordered the body and head to be removed by Chinese charitable body for burial and returned a ver-diet of death due to natural causes, Cuanceo with abandoning an infant son, Keung Sian-ken, aged eight months, Kaung Our-ching, a coolie, and Keung Tsang-sze, the coolie's wife, were ordered io be detained for one week by the First Special District Court on March 13. The abandoned child was found by a' Chinese in Lane No. 1027 East Seward Road. The Chinese reported to the police, who removed the child to a hospital Where it died soon after being admitted. The child's parents were later located and. charged.

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