When Shanghai was a much smaller Settlement than it is now, the Widow's Monw situated in a marsh about a mile away from the western boundary. As the Settlement extended west, the marsh became the Racecourse with the ancient tumulus on which the actual monument stood enclosed wit it. Little, if anything is known of the origin of the Widow's Monument, except that it was erected prior to living memory as a permanent tribute to " Good Widow. Some of the oldest residents of Shanghai have in their childhood climbed over its old stone arches and played around its base, but as time sped on its foundations settled in the Yangize silt, its lintel fell awry. Today it has been restored. Mr. Eric Moller's interest in various forms of architecture ts not unknown in Shanghai, and it is to him that the thanks of those who frequent the Racecourse and, perhaps, the gratitude of the Good Widow herself, is due.
Builders and masons for the past year or more have been building a new mound and restoring the stonework of the dilapidated old monument to its original "ie pailou now stands on its turfed carpet a fitting memorial again and a reminder to the who play the games of the West that the East is watching them. denied that he had been to his room fat 7 o'clock on March 12. and. had {old the amah to go home.
At this point Mr. Shields question~ ced Casement about a statement he had made to Lieutenant Boyd when he was arrested, in which he said that had retuned to his room at 7 O'clock, "Tt was the frst thing that ime into my head." Casement. so. ST'don't know why I said it" denied emphatically that he had moved the body of the child and thrown iL over the wall of the Jewish School compound.
"The statement ec made to Lieutenant Boyd was put in us evidence by the District Attoricy, who. then concluded his cross examination, The case will be heard again this morning. when the final summing on the part of the prosecution and the defence will be presented,
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