Man Who Killed Foreign Lady Shot by Chinese Militia The mardever of Mrs. E. T. For-esther, who it will be recalled, was captured by the S.MLP. in Ningpo some weeks afterwards, was execut-Jed on Monday at 4.50 p.m, by the Chinese authorities in a' vacant piece of ground on Minghong Road.
The crime was committed in November, suspicion at once being. attached to the coolie in the house.
After several weeks of investigation. by the late Det-Sergt. F. G. Campbell, the alleged murderer was traced to Ningpo and Speci Branch detectives took him from his hiding place in a cave in the foot-ills.
Tried by the Provisional Court the coolie was found guilty and sentenced to death.
On Monday afternoon the condemned man was taken from the Wand Road Gaol in the wire cage-wager to the sides of which he was manacled, and after a parade along. the roads north of Soochow Creek, Juding North Chekiang Road near the Provisional Court, the proceeded along Nanking and Honan Roads to the French Concession.
After passing through the Concession, the police party, in char; Chief Inspector Fairbarn, we to Lunghua and then to the place of execution.
The murderer "having admitted the crime and having signed the necessary documents, which inc minated himself, the Chinese milttary hurried him to the open fel, where everything was in readiness.
leg irons were removed and he was forced to his knees. Within a few seconds a soldier placed a Mauser pistol to the rear of the criminal's biend, pulled the trigger, and in so doing, wrote the final chapter in a chronicle of events which has been a matter of regret to both the foreign und Chinese community.
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