The Archive · 1941

Robbing Grave

'Shanghai, Apr. 5, A destitute Chinese woman of 60, Jeharged with attempting' to. rob a Jarave, told the First Special District [Court yesterday that she was digging Hor clothes worn by a dead baby to sell them, as she was faced with starvation, She was sentenced to six months! imprisonment, She was arrested early yesterday' morning ina deserted compound at the intersection of Penang and Ton jauin Reads by a police patrol party while digging up the grave, Mr, Paul Chiang, Assistant Municipal Advocate, prosecuting, said she was a widow and had no children of her sown.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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