The two Chinese sons, Chou Ching-
land 21 respeelively, who electrocuted their father Chou Yung-chieh, a former Chinese dispensary manager in Mukden while he was in bed and dismembered his body in their house at 228A Avenue Haig on October were sentenced to death by strangulation yesterday by the First Special District Court. The execution of the sentences remains to be seen because present there sno execution ground provided by Chinese judicial Duthorities in Shanghai. Formerly, fexecutlons took place in the Tso Ho Ching Prison in the Chinese territory. 'The boys' mother was given sentence of two. years and. six months charged with aiding and abetting in damaging the corpse.
"The sentencing of the trio con~ cludes the tial of one of the most Sensatfonal cases in the police record here since it isa rare thing in China that the sons should have killed their father ina country where filial piety has always been the tradition-Bland guiding principle in a family. The ease has been the general topic Of, household discussions, and the feat interest shown in the case was evidence yesterday by the big crowd of people who thronged the court and the street in front of the court in order to learn the results fof the last hearing.
It was learned that excepting the two death sentences passed yesterday, the same court has, since the withdrawal of Chinese troops from Shanghai area, passed 33 death sen-fences. Formerly, for executing criminals, a firing squad was provid-fed In the Chinese territory but now the executions must await new rangement and in this respect in-Structions from. Chungking are necessary.
Looking very much more dis~ appointed than before and pale the two youths received their sentences. calmly and were, Jed away quickly by the judicial police. Their mother, 2 48-year old woman, is probably the one who suffers the most from the family tragedy. She has repeatedly expressed the hope that the fives of her sons might be spared while disapproving of their cruel ets.
The crime, it will be recalled, had a deeply-rested cause. "The father was #310 to be of very bad nature fand he il-treated his wife so often that Ube sons finally decided to get rid of him in order to save their mother. Finding fault with her, very small matters he often beat the woman and would turn his attention to his sons when the latter intervened. He stopped supporting his tons through selion! despite the fact that he was a well-to-do man.
The brothers soon held discussions In a Concession park and finally they electrocuted. their father while the fatter was sleeping in bed. They stole his pass book and some cash with which they bought a screwdriver, a hand saw and sulphuric and nitric ooid trying to make it a clean job by dismembering the body of their father and destroying evidence applying acid, Their elder sister Secretly reported the matter to the Bubbling Well Police who arrived at their house only to find a dismembered body. The sons were arrested upstairs room where the discovery was made while the mother was eausht downstairs, The Police prosecutor insisted. that, although the woman did not participate in the murder plot, she could not deny that she was ignorant of the dismemberment of her husband's body.
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