The aftermath of the recent murder ease, in which a Chinese woman held her husband while a friend of her lover stabbed him to death with a putty knife, and later in Privisional Court her child appeared and attempted to take the blame and shield her mother, was heard on Sept, 27 by Judge Kuh and the Senior Consul's Deputy, Mr, Van den Berg, and resulted in 'a sentence of death for the woman and her lover who both confessed their part in the affair.
The decision hinged on Article 284 of the Criminal Codo which concerns premeditated death, Both received their fate calmly and only regretted that the lover's friend who carried out the most gruesome part of the ghastly crime was still at
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