C, M. Wu arrested the chauffeur on Thursday night in Rue August Hoppo. At first the accused denied the charges, but later confessed to the Bubbling Wellmpolice station, according to Mr. ¥. D. Wong, municipal advocate who prosecuted.
The chauffeur and the woman were separated soon after marriage in 1933, Mr, Wong told the Court. During the past five years, the woman had paid occasional visits, to her husband. One such visit Was made a few days before May 27, when the woman asked the husband to take her back. An argument arose during which the woman was said to have threatened to sue the husband for maltreatment jand desertion.
In the evening of May 27, the woman called on her husband at the French Concession garage. He then took her to a skating rink in Avenue Edward VII, where he ordered two bottles of lemonade. While his wife was away from her seat, he secretly poured sleeping powder into her cup, the contents of which she later consumed.
The chauffeur soon took the woman back to his garage. As she became unconscious, he bound her and then drove her to the Hardoon garden, where he was known to the gateman and servants. There he disposed ai the body.
At the garage, the police ford a quantity of iron wire which had not been used, according to the prosecution. A refugee living at the garage also told the police to have seen the woman on the night of Tae twin-screw motorship Arend-shark 11,000 ton freighter built at the Schichau shipyards in Danzig for the Eastern Asia and Australia service of the United Netherlands Steamship Company, was launched on Thursday,
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