the Shanghai Provisional' Court on Saturday, Judge Li Ching-foo, with whom sat Mr, Burdett British "Consular "Oficial, passed sentence of death on Nyoeh Kyingfe and ordered Chien Ssu-ling to serve 16 years' imprisonment in connection with the murder of Mrs. E. T. Forestier on November 2 at her home, 528 Avenue Haig.
In his' remarks upon the judgment, Mr. Burdett said that the police officers concerned in the case] were to be commended for their: good work. The merey shown to the second accused, a dangerous man as he had proved himself to be, was not wise. The evidence! showed that the hawker, the second accused, aided and abetted Nyoeh Kying-ie, the first accused, in robbing Mrs. Forestier, and' that he went to the house to obtain the money. While there, he connived at the murder and afterwards shared, the spoils with the murderer and another accomplice. In his evidence, he gave no reason or satisfactory, explanation of his part in what took place, and it would be dificult to} see what construction could be placed upon his actions other than' that he went to Mrs, Forestior's house for the purpose of assisting, in a robbery and, if need be, prepared to commit 'a violent assault! in order to attain his ends.
With regard to the charge of murder against the second accused, he was found to have been a "principal in the second degree": that hho aided and abetted the main offender in the perpetration of the crime. If, for some reason, it was considered proper to deal leniently with him, it would, therefore, have seemed that the degree of his guilt was somewhat less than that of the first accused. When one considered the present conditions prevailing in Shanghai, together with the extra ordinarily savage nature of the murder, and had taken into consideration also the fact that there were no extenuating circumstances whatever concerning the case of the second accused, Mr. Burdett concluded that he doubted the wisdom of extending merey to a criminal ruthless and dangerous to the public.
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