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Goverment Nouse.
Hong-Kong, 18th, April, 1901.
I have the honour to inform you that at the
last Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court a Chinese woman
named WONG PO was convicted of the Murder of Kwong Cheung with
whom she had lived as a Concubine.
In accordance with the instructions I consider-
ed the case in Executive Council on the 9th, instant, the Chief
Justice who tried the case being in attendance. The evidence
was circumstantial, but, a short time before the alarm was given
the deceased and the prisoner were heard quarrelling in their
cubicle. The alarm was given by the prisoner who stated that
robbers had entered and killed 'her man'. The murder took place
between 9 a.m. and 10 a..
The Chief Justice was satisfied that the ver-
dict was correct, but was of opinion in which I agreed that,
having regard to all the circumstances it was not a case in
which the execution of the sentence of death should be carried
out. The prisoner has been examined by three doctors and is
pronounced to be pregnant.I have commuted the sentence to im-
prisonment
The Right Honourable
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,M.P.
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