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WIFE ACCUSED OF MURDER.
FOUR OTHERS ALSO CHARGED.
A terrible death was meted out to a villager in the New Torri- tories as a result of embracing his daughter-in-law, according to the Crown case against five fellow villagers, which was set out before Mr, E. L Wynne-Jones at Taipo Police Court yesterday afternoon.
There were five prisoners, tha principal one Tang Yung, aged 63 (widow) who was charged with the murder of her husband, Cheung Pak-yau, also 63 years of age, at Sheung Tse Village, Pak Heung Valley, Au Tau, on Septem. ber 1, this year. The others were Cheung Yuk-shun, Cheung Yau- luk, Cheung Shiu and "Cheang Shlu-hing, who were charged with aiding and abetting. Prisoners were undefended.
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In telling the Crown version of the crime, Mr. Andrewes said that Cheung met hia death in the village between five and six o'clock on the afternoon of September 1. No news of his death reached Au Tau Police Station until two days later, September 3, when, at about noon. Sergt. C. Baysting. in charge of Au Thu Station, received a report | as a result of which he went to the village and made enquiries.
Defendants Arrested.
Sergt. Bursting succeeded in locating the place where the body' had been hurted, had it exhumed and sent it to Kowloon Mortuary. As a result of his, enquiries the defendants were arrested.
Continuing. Mr. Andrewes said that Dr. Utley performed a post mortem examination but the body was in such an advanced state of decomposition that he could not definitely state the cause of death,) but either he was beaten to death or strangled to death.
Mr. Andrewes added that the circumstances were best described ip statements made by the first and second defendants.
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said that he would stab both her of the case. There would be three (defendant) and her son.
chief witnesses, Pun Chiu-ling, the little boy 13
The son's statement was to the daughter-in-law, a affect that at about seven o'clock years of age, and one of the clans- on the morning of the day in men who arrived on the scene after First defendant (deceased's question. the sister-in-law took the murder had taken place and wife), when charged, stated that some cooked rice to her father-in carried the body away to the hill. when she returned from the fields law when he embraced her but she side. He added that the sympathy she saw her husband trying to refused his advances. His mother of the villagers seemed to be all embrace his daughter-in-law so then came in, picked up a stick on the side of the defendants. she defendant) struck him with a and struck Cheung. The son After giving evidence of arrests. stick. He then attempted to strike | then went out to celt frewood and Sergt. Baysting said that the fifth her with a dagger but did not do on his return his mother told him defendant volunteered to show him HO. "I told my daughter-in-law to that Cheung was not a good man the grave, which was half a mile help me to strangle bim,” con- as he had embraced his daughter to the north of the village. The tinued the statement. The state-in-law. He went and scolded his body was found at a depth of two ment went on that the daughter-in-father but his father scolded him feet, with no coffin, and had been law then struck Cheung in the mouth in return so he went to his uncle's buried face downwards. He was
with a piece of firewood. At that house..
dressed in a white singlet and time he was not dead but was still
black cotton trousers. A rope was' able to speak.
lied round his neck so tightly that it was buried in the leah so that
i head was nearly severed.
Among other things, witness said, he was handed a dagger and
bamboo pole.
Alleged Dagger Attack.
At this point Mr. Andrewes His father found him there and pointed out that in the daughter-wanted to stab him with a dagger in-law's statement she said that and he, also tried to stab first he was not then able to speak but defendant. He was stopped by was apparently unconscious.
clansmen who told him to restraina hfs temper. Later, over ten clans- men went to Cheung's house. His mother told them to tie up Cheung
Strangled With Rope.
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First defendant's statement con-
Dr. K. H. Utley, Medical Ofeer tinued that clansmen came along, and 'drag him out of the house.] noon.
there being nearly 100 people pre-His mother used stones and sticks charge of Kowloon Mortuary, sent, and she told the clansmen to to strike Cheung and finally spoke of making a post mortem 8th Oct at 7 a.m. tie up Cheung and drag him out strangled him with a piece of rope, and said he could not say if the
of doors. Finally she put a piece The son's statement added that rope was of rope round his neck, pulled it his father was not a good man as before or after death as the body Wis SO decomposed. Also, for tight twice and strangled him.he had been in prison for kidnap- After strangling him she told the ping and had also been banished. that reason, he could not tell if clansmen to carry his body away All the clansmen knew that he was there were any bruises and if he had been beaten, but he could say and bury it. The statement con- not a good man.
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tinued that he was not a good man. Mr. Andrewes explained that and had been banished. He also those two statements threw most teeth were missing. wanted to stab her son and once light on the actual circumstances (Continued on Page 11.)
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