A request was made in the First Special District Court yesterday by the prosecution for a death sented to be passed on upon Chin Hsiang-piao, a jobless young man, who on February 4 stabbed his benefactor and friend who lived in the same house with him at 16 Shih Wen Li, Tatung Road, to death. Chin was said tó be worse than a butcher. Judgment was reserved for Febru:
During the hearing, t was revealed that Chin often asked the victim, Lin Wei for loans so that he might gamble and would not listen to friendly advice from the latter. Lin reprimanded him many times after he had borrowed cloth from Lin to be pawned in or to obtain gambling money. It was when Lin threatened to report the matter to Chin's relatives that Chin decided to kill his friend. Lin was stabbed with a meat knife 50 times while still in bed.
Chin told' the court that if his shortcomings were revealed to his relatives and other friends as Lin threatened he would not be able to live as a man and that therefore he could not have taken any other course. He did mot know how many times he had stabbed his friend. He himself was also injured. Lin's aged mother also appeared in court wee} ing and she requested the judge f. heavy punishment for the murderer.
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