Electrocuted in Bed and Compensation Offered Body Dismembered; Mother Also Charged Preliminary information on investigations "into the shooting by a of the United States Marines Charged with murdering their in Tientsin, of a Japanese railway father, the two sons of the late guard which et 130 am. Chou Yung-chieh, 50-year old former On October 11, revealed. that the manager of a Chinese dispensary in railway guard was shot in the left Mukden whose electrocuted and dis-thigh and that the commanding membered body was found by the officer of the US, Marines in Tien-Bubbling Well Road Police, on October 6 in his house at 228A Avenue tsin, accompanied by a Vice-Consul, called on the Japanese vice-com-Haig confessed to their crime in the mander of the Tientsin area and ex-First Special District Court yesterday pressed his regrets at the occurrence, in the presence of crowded court. promising the court martialling of Their mother, a 48-year old woman, the Corpora] responsible for the was alleged to be an accessory by shooting and offering compensation the police and charged with aiding to the wounded Japanese railway and abetting in the crime. Judgment according to the milit: ry will be announced on October 20. spokesman at yesterday's prooos coni Mr. Wang Yeo-tong, Municipal Adference. vocate, strongly prosecuted the two He added that the Japanese youths, Chou Ching-chi and Ching-authorities view the matter as one hsiang aged 24 and 21 respectively, of local issue, asserting that they should not be The incident occurred at the East pardoned. He charged the sons with railway station in Tientsin where, homicide against a direct lineal as-according to previous reports from fendant by blood which is punishable with either death or life imprison-the northern city, the Marine was ment according to Article 272 of the stationed guarding Marine property, when a discussion ensued as a Criminal Code. He said that although their mother denied that she had result of which the shot was dred, plotted the murder in connivance Incident Described with her sons, she could not deny It was understood by Domei that that she was ignorant of the dismemthe shooting occurred at 1.40 a.m. on berment of her husband's body and Wednesday when the guard, re-therefore he charged her with aiding spending to a woman's call for help, and abetting in damaging the corpse. proceeded towards a freight car Mr. Wang also told the court that containing marine equipment stand-the accused mother was arrested in a room near the kitchen of the house ing in the railway yard and guarded when the police arrived hinting that by Cpl Armona and Pte. Marcell. she might have maintained a watch Pte Symansky and Col. Armona while her sons were dismembering were said to have-jumped upon the the body of their father in an up-guard, who called for assistance. stairs room where the youths were During the scuffle Cpl. Armona fired arrested. He indicated that the his gun, wounding the guard. He is father was first electrocuted with live said to have fled to the barracks wires while in bed and then his sons through Tientsin, but Pte. Symansky tried to dismember his body and de-was detained by Japanese military stroy evidence by preparing to police, who handed him over to destroy parts of the body with ada. marine officers on Wednesday After murdering their father, it was evening. alleged, the sons stole their father's passbook (worth more than $1,000) CiarwING to be starving, a labourer and $45 in cash. They went out to staying at a Salvation Army shelter buy a screwdriver, a hand saw and after creating a scene in the street, sulphuric and nitric acid. These was, when taken to the police sta-things together with a photographic tion found to have in his possession of the dismembered body of the nearly £100 in notes, silver and victim were presented to the judge coppers. as evidence.
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