Judgment was reserved for a week! by Judge Liu Yuskwei of the First Special District Court on Thursday in, the case against Loh Yue-sung, a school teacher, charged with instigating the axe murders of September 23 in 459 North Honan Road. The murdered persons were two women, mistress and maid-servant.
Loh Yue-sung, who twice admitted at the police station that he had hired two men (o Kill the women, retracted his confessions when he was brought before the Court, making it impossible for Judge Liu to arrive at a decision in the case.
The prisoner declared he confessed the police station because he was tortured.
In order to show that no torture was used on the prisoner, the police ook him the other day to the North Honan Road house for a reconstruction of the crime with Judge Liv, his jelerk and the police lawyer in an adjoining room to hear what the prisoner would say in the presence of police. AS he did previously. the police station, the prisoner: iked freely and described to the joficers how he met his hired men at the comer of Range and North /Honan Roads, how they entered the house where he kept a guard at the gate while his accomplices murdered the women in an upstairs room and, hhow, after the crime, he stole a case containing. jewels before escaping.
After the reconstruction of the crime, the prisoner was taken to an adjoining room where he was sut~ prised to find the Judge and pol lawyer were there and the Judge's clerk was busily taking notes of his jwerbal evidence. Seeing there was Ino use in retracting his the prisoner admitted having Inst!- Jgated' the murders when he appeared on remand before the Court and added that revenge was the motive because the deceased woman had refused to return him the money left by his father, He also, said that his two accomplices were Hsu and Ma whose whereabouts were unknown at present.
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