Carpenter Kills Girl and Buried Her Under Floor Convicted of murder of his sw heart, a carpenter named Li Ching-keng was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday by Judge Fu in the First Spe District Court. The prisoner was arrested by officers attached to the Yulin Road Police Station last month following the gruesome discovery of his sweetheart's body under the floor of their room in a house near Whashing Road.
Investigations revealed that pecting that his girl friend w in Action Declared Void love with another man, Li strangled ner to death while she was sleeping and then buried her under the action between Fraser Motors Ltd. and F. S. Collet was declared null yesterday by Judge P. Grant Jones in H. M. Supreme Court when it was stated that the writ had not been properly signed. Under Article 157 of the Order-in-Council, stated the Judge, Mr. Fraser, the managing director of the plaintiff company, had not filed the necessary authority to represent his firm in Court and therefore he could not appear.
Represented by Mr. Ranald Mc-Donald plaintiff was given the liberty to file a new writ without further fees. For defendant Mr. Newman claimed costs but was ordered to discuss the matter at the- next hearing, floor. Friends who called on him were surprised to see that the girl Koo Hsiao-mei, had been absent for several days from Li's room and also from the cotton mill where she worked Questioned by his friends, Li frankly admitted that he had got rid of her and the bad news soon leaked out to the police. The girl might have saved her life if she had not resumed friendly relations with Li for they had lost sight of each other for a long time since the hostilities. Before the hostilities, they lived together but unexpectedly they met again some months ago when they decided to celebrate their happy reunion,
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