The Archive · 1934

Man Who Kills Friends

'A quarrel over $3, which cost the of Wong Yung-chih, 27, in_ an alleyway off Hardoon Road, on July resulted in the passing, by the First Special District Court on Friday, of a 2-year gaol term on Wu Mow-ching, charged by police with having killed Wong with a knife.

"The accused and the deceased were formerly ood friends and members fof a private savings society. The deceased was said to have owed the accused $3. A quarrel over this fount of money developed between them on July 6 Tu a fight which fensited, the accused was said to have [stabbed with a knife his friend to death.

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