Pleadings were re-opened in the Second Special District Court, on Tuesday, Oct, 22, in the against Koo Tso-hsien, of a chain amusement resorts, charged the French Police with. instigating the murder of the late Mr. Tang Chia-an, formerly manager of the Great World Amusement Resort. At the conclusion of pleadings, judgment was reserved Zau Yen-sheng, manager of the Kiangnan Hotel, said he had never seen Kon in the hotel, contrary to statement by Chao' Kuan-foo, a witness for the prosecution, who alleged that the accused met them in the hotel, promised them a handsome reward for the late" Mr, 'Tans' murder, and handed them two pistols: with which to commit the murder.
Chao Size-leo, another employee of the hotel, also aid the accused never had been in the hotel.
Ho Hso-ming said that Chao Kuang. foo. who had implicated the accused as the instigator of Mr. Tang's murder, and who now is serving a life imprisonment sentence for the crime, had once asked him to write a letter the accused. trying to extort from him $1,000. Witness said he rejected Chao's request. a MISCELLANEOUS, Fon passing a tramear on the offside and for overtaking other vehicles going in the same direction at the same time and place, Mr. L. Borgeest was fined 10/- by the Registrar, Mr.
Haines, in H. M. Police Court on Tuesday, Oct. 22.
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