Sordid Story Told Before the High Court Cut out the sordid details of the pavans concerned and the murder euse which resulted in the con ction and sentence to death of 1 man and a woman in Weihaiwei assumes an astonishing si to the famous "Pace Trial has been stirring public opinion at Lame and for some weeks took pro-front page space in many newspapers.
The trial took place in I. M. High Court at Weihaiwei, before Judge Sir Peter Grain. There were three accused: Liang Mao-lin, proprietor of a cake shop, Chang Liu-shih, a woman, and Chang Wen-in, person of occasional employment. The charge against the first two, was murder by arsenic poisoning of Chang Wen-ching, husband of Chang Liv-shih, and against the third of being accessory after the fact. Liang "was condemned death; the death sentence sith recommendation to merey was passed on the woman; and the third accused was sentenced to two ears with hard labour, The trial lasted for five days, from October 32, to November finishing on November 5. Mr. A. G. Mossop, Crown Advocate, appeared or the Crown, and Mr. A. Covey, ployed by the government of Weihaiwei, for the defence, The defence pleaded that the deceased had committed suicide. Chang Wen-lu pleaded an alibi.
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