Shanghai, Jan. 16.
Charged with assault causing death, Zah Sze-pel, an employee of a pork shop at 161 Rue de Galle, was brought before the First Special District Court yesterday for trial in connection with the fatal stabbing of a meat hawker, Liu Tsao-pao, operating a stall ai the Seymour Road Market which crime was committed on January 14, Police evidence was that Zah went to the hawker on January 14 asking him to pay $278 which he owed to the pork shop from which hho had been buying meat for some weeks. When the hawker explained why he could not pay the pork shop assistant became enraged and. the argument developed into a fight in which blows were exchanged. Accused telephoned to his manager for {instructions sind later tried again to ask the hawker to pay his debt.
'The dispute became heated' and Zah took a meat knife from a stall and stabbed his adversary several times in the neck and head causing his death which occurred several hours later in the Paulun. Hospital. Two constables arrested Zah and gent him to the Bubbling Well Police tation,
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