Shanghai, Oct, 21, Instead _of only one, the Second Special District Court ts detaining five persons in connection with the murder of Father F. Lebreton, of the French Roman Catholic Churen Siccawei Mission which eri was committed on August 20. Two Jor the men have confessed that they participated in the crime while the two other men steadfastly dented that they had anything todo with Hearing will be resumed on November 2 and the French police are still looking for the ringleader of the crime who ts believed to be hiding in Pootung.
The first man whom the police took into custody is Klow Ah-loh, a youth who was once cared for in the Orphanage and Workshop of the Catholic Mission of which the late priest was director. He surrendered himself to the police and in court admitted that he and another man broke into the priest's room. White the other man was strangling the priest "to death he held the latter's fect, "On Thursday he. again admitted that after the murder they stole $1,800.
One of the four men recently ested by the police told the court that he merely served as a watehjan while the "crime was being Committed. Me tried to exonerate nother suspect, stating that ter knew thi nothing do. with the crime admitting however that they knew two of the accused. as friends, Tt was revealed by the dest used that the man who he priest to death Is one Yuellao who it Tar Kiow the police have not yet framed charges against the other detained men prefering nake further investigations with a
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