Jealousy is believed to be the motive for a stabbing affair which occurred in the French Concession late on Wednesday evening when a young Chinese married woman was taken to hospital with knife wounds in her thigh as the result of an attack, enquiries seem to point out, by her husband.
The injured woman is Zeng Zie-zo, aged 29 years, and she is the proprietor of a meat stall in the Concession. At the hospital it was ionnd that she had been knifed in the thigh and on the chest but her injuries are not serious and she will recover.
Taken into custody in connection with the affair is Zeng Ling-hwa, her husband, aged 29 years, the proprietor of a haricot bean business. On going to his home at 59 Chang Vu Li, Rue Ratard, one night, enquiries have revealed, he discovered his wife in the arms of a Chinese, constable of the French Municipal Police.
The policeman, it is stated, was li plain clothes and the husband accused him of having made love to his wife. Later the woman was stabbed and the husband was at once arrested although he accused his wife's lover of having performed tne deed. Enquiries are still continuing in the case.
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