Suspicion was aroused in the First Special District Court yesterday that the father of Wang Ah-ying, until recently employed as an amah of the late Mr. Charles Chegwidden, 60-year old retired British Customs official who was found suffocated to death in his home on May 29 in Nanzing Road, might have been involved in the crime. When the former house boy and the amah faced the court, the former stated that the amah's father visited her twice in the afternoon after the crime and that they both went out. He said that he himself was not involved in the crime in any manner.
Both suspects said that they were all bound and gagged by the robbers who put their master to death. The amah also tried to shift the responsibility altogether but informed the court that it was after her master had obtained some insurance money that the crime was committed. The judge ordered that the amah's father be brought before the court at the next trial and postponed the hearing.
The crime, it will be recalled, was committed late in the evening of May 28 when the late Mr. Chegwidden was sleeping in his room. Several robbers broke in, bound him and suffocated him to death. They escaped with their booty the value of which was not officially revealed yesterday. The wife of the unfortunate foreigner who was sick at the time was so shocked to learn of the bad news that she also died later.
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