The Archive · 1931

MURDER OF WOMEN MISSIONARIES Chinese Servants Sentenced to Strangulation

Peking, Oct, 12.

The two murderers of the Ameri. can missionaries, Mrs, White and Mrs. Miller, crime with ges from Yunnanfa.'

two men, disgruntled ser-ants who backed their mistresses to death as they lay in bed asleep, were sentenced to death by a lower: court but took an appeal to the 'Yunnan Appelate court. This court has now sustained the judgment of the lower Court that the man' must die by strangulation and their' female abettor serve nine years' imprisonment, The sentences will be carried out when they have been confirmed by' the Ministry of Justice in Nanking.—Reuter.

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