LLEWING swiftly upon the arrest of a Chinese suspected of being the leader of a gang of assassins, police on Thursday made sensational progress towards a solution of the mystery surrounding the triple murder in the Lester Chinese Hospital on Wednesday evening. Two pistols identified by ballistic experts as bei weapons used in the crime were seized in the course of a series of raids in the Settlement and the French Concession.
Five men and four women were taken during the raids.
Two full of pistols and ammunition and concealing two Mills hand-grenades were found, 'A quantity of Communist literature seemed to show that the gang were identified with subversive activities, throwing 'a new light upon possible motives for the murder of Yoong Koh-woo, who was shot dead in his bed in the hospital ward.
"A Mauser and a.32 calibre pistol were found under the pillow of a woman who lay stretched on a couch in a well-furnished room over silversmith's shop where most of the weapons were discovered.
The mysteries surrounding several political murders in Shanghai in the {his room, all loaded, a were most last few years are believed to be the other gurs. Two bombs were near solution asa result of the found, one of them being a Mills arrest of ten Communist suspects type hand-grenade and the other 3 and the seizure of a veritable arsenal tear-gas missile. A large quantity of guns, bombs and ammunition on fof Communist literature also was "Thursday afternoon and early on confiscated.
Friday morning.
Inquest Man of Mystery The murdered patient was known spvraiay at inquest over the bodies Verses of marae were returned on as Yoong Koh-woo and had been in othe Yhree'wcts—Yoong, "Koh the hospital since September 16, when he was critically wounded with the rots Chinese' etecive belonging Methet Se ands Chinew Com same pistol which ended his life on ate belong tothe Prench Poi Wednesday. He stolidly refused to hat" deed en Weanesdeytell the police anything about the "the Procurator ordered that the stack, which occurred in a Shanse oats of'tne Chinese' detective. and Road lodging-house, nor did he ex-manded over to the plain his presence in the place. He ermettve "tautes "while. the body bald he had arrived the day before ofthe hat wide buried by the
ascertained. that he had been in from, Hangchow, but detectives later Shanghat Benevolent Solty. nanenat group of chinese detec three weeks when ists re Sr the Morgue conveying first time, He was rate erewved families. well-dressed and ap-'Communist Suspects Im. Court parently a stranger here, Possibly his secret died with him. she nix men and four women were The vse of the powerful Mauser is eaegntbetore ihe Second "Branch believed to be a "new wrinkle" in Konia "High Court on Friday the practices of Shanghai Communists, Themen gave their names How Murderers Proceeded xcwng Wont 35, unemployed: Zau In broad daylight four armed Shee", unemployed: Tang Want, Chinese entered the Lester Hospital tnerinloyes, Meng Tomeetng. 2 last Wednesday, assassinated a patient Thempiores; Chu Ringing. run lying ina crowded ward, then killed a cuployeds and Lis ing-yung, Chinese detective who attempted. to iit arker while the 30, women arrest them, and finally killed a Chi-the Lin duce, at; Les Yang 6, hose constable from the French Conand Teng Lao fession whom they encountered they fled through the hospital com-'The hearing was held in. camera pound, They escaped, leaving the but it was understood that the polies Targe institution in a state of turmoil id not specify any charge or charges first murder is believed to be against the prisoners, but only made unique in Shanghai's history: the an application for their detention. cold-blooded slaying of a patient pending further inquiries into the Festing in a hospital bed. It was brutal murders of last Wednesday. It ed out with speed and precision. was further understood that the High fas were the subsequent killings, the Court, after a lengthy examination, Whole affair being over within a few ordered the ten prisoners to be re-minutes. Scores of persons witnessed turned to custody until 9 am. on the murders and those who heard the October 8 for trial shots included Mayor Wu Te-chen, The Nanking government _auth-who was only one storey removed orities are actively ce-operating with from the floor on which the patient the police of the three Shanghai was assassinated at the time of the munlelpalities in the inquiries which tragedy. are being conducted into' the cir Mayor Wu's presence in the hospital was due toa course of electrical murders. cumstances surrounding the brutal treatments he has been receiving for a nervous condition in the shoulder.
The dend Chinese detective was one of the most trusted of the younger
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