The First Special District Court, which heard a murder case against 2 Chinese police constable on Nov. 17, handled another murder ease on Nov. 18. The prisoner this case was Wong Kah-chab, ex-employee of a raisin company in the Concession, accused of killing a woman, Muang Sung-sz, in Room No. 201. Central Hotel, Canton Road, on November 2, After the woman's body was dis covered in the hotel, a note was found in her room, saying she hod committed suicide, Closer examina~ tion of the handwriting, _howeve revealed that, the handwriting was not a woman's. A. sum of money and a gold watch of the woman were missing.
The "prisoner, arrested recently in a lodging house in Avenue Edward Vi, at frst denied the crime, but, after gruelling examination by the detectives, he admitted having written the note found in the woman's room, The woman vas strangled to death by another man still at large. but he helped to remove the body toa bath-tub adjoining the room, the prisoner told the officers. Judgment was reserved for one week by the
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