Darroch Road Crime Sensation "Little Cantonese," for, who implicated Yang Ven-tao as the murderer of the Japanese warrant officer, H. Nakayama, on Darroch Road, on November' 9 last year, and said he went to the scene of murder but did not carry a pistol, last Wednesday told the First Special District Court that he alone committed the crime and Yang. had nothing to do with the shooting. Yih "continued that Chinese had suffered a lot at the hands of Japanese and ttiat sine the September 18 neident, he had had a desire to kill a Japanese. His original desire was {o ill a high Japanese oficial but on November 9 he met only a Japanese marine 50 he killed him, Yih said.
Yih's statement that day caused a surprise not only to the Judge and police in the court, but to his attorney {as well. He made the statement after Mr. Paul ¥. Ru, the Assistant Municipal Advocate, who conducted the prosecution, had told the Judge that, during the period of remand, the prisoner Yih Hal-sen had given fuller details at the police station about the shooting of Nakayama.
"According to Yih's statement at the police station, Mr. Ru said, two meotings at least, attended by two Koreans and three Chinese, had been held in the Cantonese society known as the Dong Nyi Yah Hui to discuss the proposed murder of a Japanese. Yang Ven-tao was the chief of this soclely while Yih Hai-sen was a member.
Two Koreans also desired to join the society but they were not admitted, according to Yih's statement, Questioned by the Judge about his statement at the police station, Yih Hai-sen said it was not true and that hho had made the wrong statement-at. the police station because he was. afraid of the police. Yih continued that the pistol used in the crime and the book used to conceal the pistol were all his property.
After Yih's confession, Chang Shang, a wiiness for the defence, was called at the request of Mr. Keh Shao-chi, counsel for Yang Ven-tao. This witness alleged that two other men, Cheng Wel-ming and Tseng Yuen, had approached him and asked him to ad a witness falsely implicating the accused in connection with the Japanese marine's murder In order to et the cash reward. Witness said he refused, whereupon these two men asked Tsang Sai-yuen as the witness, Mr, Ru told the Judge that the real name of "Jack," the Korean, who was mentioned several times' by. the accused and witnesses in the ease, was Han Chlcliang, This Korean had told the police that he knew Yih Hal-sen, but denied having taken part in the shooting of Nakayama. The Korean witness was unable to testify.
Other witnesses who appeared that day included C.PC. 2801 and 2604 of the 8. M. Police, who described how they localed two witnesses im: mediately after the Darroch' Road murder; Ho Shiang-wu, a shoemaker, who told the Judge that, on the evening of November 9 Lasi, he going to a Japanese shop when, on Darroch Road, he heard a shot and saw a man run away through an. alleyway. This man, Ho said, was in 4 suit of clothing of black colour and. without a hat. The witness frst said this man's clothing was somewhat like sailor's uniform, but Inter changed his statement by saying he was not quite sure about that, 'A Japanese medical practitioner attached {0 the naval Janding party stifled that Nakayama had died due fo a gunshot wound, Mrs, Tseng Yuen, wife of the Cantonese inform= ant, sated that in September last year, Yih Hal-sen approached her husband for a loan of $25 with a pistol as security but her husband refused, servant of the Cantonese society known as Dong Nyi Yat Hui also made 8 statement aller which the hearing was adjourned for two weeks,
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