Peiping, June 9.
Chinese farmer, named Chang-chun, has been arrested by coal police for mutilating the corpse ofan' infant son, Mrs, Hu has given birth to three children since she was married. The first two, a son and a daughter, died in infancy. The third one, a boy of two years, died a week ago.
As none of the thro children survived infancy Hu believed that tty were born of some supernatural being. Hoping that his fourth child would not share the fate of the frst Mhree, he cut the body of the dead boy with a chopper and buried it secretly.
This was discovered yesterday when Hu reported to the police that his son had died. Asked "where he blurted the child he told the police of how he mutilated the body, "Hu was immediately arrested and' taken" to the police station—Reuter,
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