The Archive · 1934

U.S. COURT FOR CHINA

Stabbing Case

A. further development in the [stabbing case due to come before Judge Milton J, Helmick in the US. [Court for China Monday at 2 pin. ook place on Friday when the coroner, Mr, William T. Collins, fled his verdict on the causes of the Jdeath of Joseph C. Stritzel. Mr. [Stritzel, it is alleged by the District JAttorney, Mr. Felthan Watson, was stabbed by Jack Pinyan whose case will be heard on Monday.

The Coroner's verdict, as led, reads as follows: "I, the Coroner, Jind that the body examined by me Jat the mortuary of St Marie Hospital Jat Shanghai, China, on the 28th day Jot November, 1994, to be that of [Joseph C. Stritzel, and that he came to his death by bronchial pneumonia which wa the terminal cause death, and that the causes of the pneumonia arose from a weakened resistance brought on by stab wounds Jand the act of the deceased in leav-jing hospital contrary to orders and returning to his home where he remained for two days without treat-

The verdict is sigmad by Mr. [Collins as Coroner.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account