Young Concubine Among Three Persons Charged Three suspects, including the 16- year old concubine of the victim, were brought before the Second Special District Court yesterday on a writ of detention in connection with the brutal murder of Chen Ting-sun, a Chinese merchant who lived at 39 Hai Ga Li, Avenue Haig which crime was committed on Monday morning. One of the suspects, a man named Tao Peh-ching, admitted that it was at his instigation that Chen was shot and chopped to death because he had been in love with the concubine of the deceased.
Judgment was reserved pending further investigations.
Tao further told the court that the deceased began to know that he cent. She was later beaten (Tao). was in love with the young
/by her husband who warned her /against having any relations with Tao. He alleged that the concubine gave him $400 with which to hire assassins. He only received $100 for buying a pistol and he asked four men including the third suspect to do the job, he said.
The concubine denied, however, that she intended to murder her husband. She merely gave $100 to Tao in order that he might clear his gambling debt, she said.
It was revealed in court that Tao is a carpenter by profession and that he had been in love with the young concubine for some time. The con-Cubine was bought by the deceased only a few months ago.
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