The Archive · 1937

Trunk Murder Case Concluded

One Sentenced to Death in The members of the Changaha Club played host to Admiral Crabbe of HIMS, Bee on April 17 and yesterday the "Admiral and officers Weleoned all forelmers in the community on deard his flagship.

At a party at the Changsha Club the people fathered said farewell to Mr, and Mrs. George B. King of the Yeo Teoong Tobacco Ca, and to Mr. and Mrs. A. Wuest of the German Dye and Chemical Ca. Mr, and Mrs. Fisher and Mr. and Mrs, Heinrichsoh have arrived in the city to replace the couples departing for home, Peiping Trial Peiping, Apr. 30.

One of the most celebrated trials in local history was brought to a tempor~ ary close yesterday afternoon when the Peiping District Court gave judgement in the #0. called East Station trunk murder case.

Li Liangvehin was found guilty of complicity in, the murder of Liu and sentenced to' death. Wang Vu was convicted of concealing fugitives from g, justice and sentenced to one year and two months' imprisonment, Four graduates of the class of 1986, three from ind one from He ppped_in Changsha to visit their classmates in the Yale-in-China Mission. The Yolo men are Messrs. Joseph Upton of Long Island, New York, Frederick Gratwick of Buffalo, New York, and Alexander Victor of New York City, while the solo Harvard representative is Mr. John Rowland of Methuen, Massachusetts, They came to Changsha vid the Canton-Hankow Railway and are now completing a very" thorough tour around the world. Messrs. Upton and Rowland flew from Hankow Chungking and will come down the river by boat. Mr. Victor went to Peiping and Mr, Gratwick decided, to Go upstream through the Yangtze Gorges. "On finishing the river trips the three seasoned travellers will spend some time in Shanghai before going to Pesping.

Mr, and Mrs. R. S. Harrison of the English Methodist Mission and Miss Rachel Dowd home secretary of the Yale-In-China Mission are also to be included in the departures from Changsha. The Harrisons will return to England for a year vit the States and Miss Dowd will return to America by way of Europe, man, Mr. Wang Ching-bu 9 nephew of Wang Hua-l and Hoh Mel-tseng, a dancing girl, were found hot guilty and released.

About a year ago a trunk was left Uchind by a Chinese at the water gate station shortly before the through express left for Mukden. The next Gay the trunk. was opened in the Fresence of railway officials and alice when it was found to contain the dismembered body of a Chinese Local detectives were immediately placed in charge of the case and after several days' work they succeeded in Identifying the murdered man as a servant in the employ of General Wang Hua-l, a retired military commander living in the East City. Wang's house was searched and over ten people were arrested but General Wang himself had fled the city.

In the course of the investigation made by the detectives it was revealed that the servant was disposed of by Li Chang-chin, body-guard of General 'Wang, on the' latter's orders because of his intimacy with the maid servant Liu with whom the master had been on Intimate terms. Tt was also disclosed that the husband of the mal

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