The Archive · 1937

Police Watchman Charged

Ling Ming-san, a police watchman, was charged in' the First Special Disisiet Court on April with chaine Ing and padlocking his wife, Ling 1909/42 Bast Yuhang Road, on April 4, and sentenced to a year's Imprisonment, The sentence, "how-lever, was suspended for four years.

After her feet were padlocked, the watchman's wife managed to get out one of the padlocks ay she had sroail feet.' She got to the house next door by climbing over a dryin fand from the next house she went the Kashing Road Police Station, detectives from which arrested the watchman. According to. the wife, her husband indulged. in_ gambling fand, when she tried. to. make him stop gambling, a quarrel arose between them with the result that she si brother asted ley in caning The watchman told the Judge that is wife quarrelled with him when he brought some new clothing for his father, In a fit of anger, his wife damaged furniture in his house, s0 he [locked her up in a room,

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