The Archive · 1941

Child Murder

A Chinese servant. employed. by a foreigner living in. Ferry. Road confessed in the First Special District Court yesterday that.he had killed his eight month old. son because of the high cost of living but said. that he was mentally unbalanced. Kao Shiao-fu appealed for leniency but Judge Fu remanded him in eu: pending an examination by judicial doctors.

Kao has.been a cook of a foreign employee of the: Shanghai "Power Company living at Apartment No. 3106 Ferry Road. He- was said io have "been receiving a monthly wage of $40. Nine years ago, it was Te-vealed in court. he began living with his common law wife by whom he has three children, including the one killed.

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