The Archive · 1936

Before Judge Siao Shihefeng

'(Adjournment Ordered)

Chiao-ying, an 18-year old maid-servant, said to be an important witness of the murder Nakayama, a Japanese marine, on November 9 last, testified in' the First Special Disiriet Court on July 20 when the hearing was resumed Of the case against three Cantonese, Yih Hal-sen, alias "Little Cantonese, Yang Ven-lao, and Chow Zen-yung, accused of the murder of the Japanese marine. The mald-servant left for her native district in north Kiangsu some time ago and was brought back here on July 27 to tell what she knew about the case, Questioned by the Judge, the witness said she was employed last year at a Japanese house in. the Yung En Terrace, North Szechuen Road. On November 9, at about 8 am,, witness continued, she took a child for a stroll and ' when they passed Darroch Road, they saw a Japanese marine and a man in black Foreign-style clothing were walking from south to north along Darroch Road, but the marine was on. the west side of the road and the other tone, along the east. si Witness, however, said she could not identity any of the three accused as the man in black clothing whom she met the might in question.

Asked what happened after that, witness said, when she was near a hot water shop, she heard a shot and then returned home by another route, The heating was then further adjourned,

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