Charged with murder in connection with a political assassination which was committed on November when a former Kiating police chief, Vu Yeo-chang, was killed in Chekiang Road, Lee Kao-wen, one of the three men who participated in the plot, appeared in the First Special District Court yesterday and "admitted that he had fired a shot at the victim. Judgment was reserved, however, and the hearing was postponed for a week.
He did not admit that he had killed the victim, asserting that his ed him, contrary to police He said that he was a former soldier and tha; he was sent to Shanghai together with two other men who are ai large to kill Vu. He was "ordered" to do so by hi: "superiors." He ged that the victim served as a police chief un a Japanese-supported administration.
Tt will be recalled that the victim was waylaid wh riding in a rickshaw. Three men, two armed, rushed up io him and opened fi and he collapsed. The attention of the police was attracted by the gunfire and a result of a chase during which shots were exchanged, the accused was brought down with a bullet wound. Both his victim and he were taken to hospital but the former succumbed.
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