Three days after the disappearance of Mr. Jinpei Hirose. employee of the Naigai Wata Kaisha at one of its mills, his alleged slayer was taken into custody by the police of the Shanghai Special Municipality. the "Tairiku Shimpo" reported yesterday.
Acting on information of Mr. Chang Fu-keng, a district head, the police arrested one Hsia Ken-chuang, 21, who was in hiding in a flour warehouse at 107 Robison Road on Sunday afternoon.
Hsia was said by the paper to have confessed to the police that he beat the Japanese to death with a hoe following an argument precipitated when Mr. Hirose asked for road directions while on a projected fishing tri Hsia was reported to have said that he had buried the body in the fields.
After informing his parents of what had happened. Hsia was alleged to have fled to Shanghai in order to hide with some relatives.
Hsia was described by the newspaper as a farmer.
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