Sentences ranging from one year to two months were passed on six foreigners by the First Special [District Court yesterday. They were Jeonvicted on charges of having stolen lover $2,700 worth of radio parts from {the Hasoda Trading Ca, a Japanese radio firm in Paoting Road. Some $1,000 worth of the stolen goods were Fecovered. The sentenced men: IN. G. Berjitsky and Vasily Boolatof, Jeach one year's imprisonment; Evgeny Yashin, eight months; K. V, Egoroff, three months; EA. Donskoy and Leonid Krivenko, two months each, Chauffeur Confesses to Murder Shanghai, June 4.
Unchastity Jed to the tragic end. Jof a Chinese woman whose body was: found in the midst of the picturesque Hardoon estate in" Bubbling Well Road on May 31, This was at least the motive given by Zau Zung-fu, 23-year old chautfour, who confessed to the. murder at the First Special District Court [yesterday morning. The woman, he said, was his whom he found to be unchaste soon after their marriage in 1933.
The hearing was adjourned pend-Ing the findings of a post-mortem The body of the woman, Zau Zumel, aged 25, was found halt submerged in one of the creeks in the estate. Sunk with an iron plate, four by two feet, bound to it by means of iron wire, the body had remained submerged until the process of decomposition forced it" to the surface, Detectives working on the case Jquestioned over 200. employees of the estate and consequently learned of the entry of motor car into the garden on the night of May" 27. Through the trafic office of the Police, it was identified to" be the jone driven by Zau Zung-fu, the Jaccused. He had been employed there for several years before he left to work for a Chinese family jin the French Concession in 1936, Chinese Detective Sub-Inspector }C. Mf. Wu arrested the chauffeur on June 2+in Rue August Hoppo. JAI first "the accused denied the charges, but later confessed to the [Bubbling Well police station, accord jing to Me. ¥, D. Wong, municipal advocate who prosecuted.
The chauffeur and the woman were separated soon after marriage 1083, Mr, Wong told the Court. During the past five years, the woman had paid occasional visits 10 her husband,. One such visit was made Jo few days before May 27, when the woman asked the husband to take her back, An argument arose during which the woman was said to have threatened to sue the husband for maltreatment and desertion, In the evening of May 27, "the woman called on her husband at the French Concession garage. He then took her to a skating rink in Avenue Edward VIL, where he ordered two bottles of lemonade. While his wife was away from her coat, he secretly poured sleeping powder Into her Jeup, the contents of which she Jater consumed.
"The chauffeur soon took the woman back to his garage. As she became funeonseious, he bound her and then Jdrove her to the Barden garden, [where he was known to the gateman Jand servants, 'There he disposed of the body, 'At the' garage, the police found a quantity of Iron'wire which had not been used, according to the pro secution. 'A refugee living at the garage also told the police to have seen. the woman on the night of May 27,
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