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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1933.

DEATH PENALTY

WOMAN SENTENCED. IN SHANGHAI

taken away by Youngs to be his mistress and how hor later efforts to break away on a now clean trall were frustrated by his ruthless persistence.

A

Tolpige, as Mrs. Hadloy is also called, frequently raserted betwoon tears that she left the "Wolf" time and again but he always hunted" her out and forced her back to the torrible existenco she had begun! with him.

Shanghai, Oct. 18. Katherine Hadley, Ilussian-born British subject, was sentenced to death. to-day for the murder of Capt. Walter Clifford Youngs,

Although she received the sen- tence calmly, she collapsed during

Events culminated in a florco tlie hearing yesterday, and sobbed bitterly as she related the story of drinking bout on the night of a life of misery with a lover whom September 17 when aho heracit

"The Last Night.

far into the night.. that heart-rending cry! characterised as 'n wolf man, drank nearly a quart of vodka be-

The brains of the homicide squad lay awake trying to dope out the lab pood mywery. He felt like a fish when a school #m from Iowa tracked down the slayes;;

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This afternoon, the jury after afore losing consciousness.

concluded Frisoner's evidence 72 minutes absence, brought in a verdict of guilty with a strong re-with the statement that sho did not commendation for morey on the remember anything more until she Indictment against the accused. woke from her stuper to and hor Judge Grant Jones then passed the self at the polica station whore aho carcer was sald to have led him learned: that her dreaded lover had from job to job with the passage of death sentence.

The prisoner received the verdict been found in the Yangtszepoo dis- the years.

trict with knife wounds in his without any sign of emotion,

Judge Jones, in summing up, neck. pointed out that the defence plea

He was at various intervels om- played in the service of the Capt. Younga, a nomadic Jardino, Matheson and Co., the of provocation owing to Intoxica character with a reputation - for China-Merchants Steam Naviga tion was insuficient to reduce the recklessness, was 64 years of age, tion Co.. and worked for Major crimo from murder to man- 8 years older than his mistress. Chauncey P, Holcomb as master of He was discovered by police lying the steam launch Silver Ster slaughter.

The sentence must be confirmed in a pool of blood in a room near operating between Shanghal and by Sir Miles Lampaon, British Muirhead Road, Shanghat, which small Islands nearby on the China

borg evidence of a desperate Connt, it is said. Minister to Chino,

Hitherto no woman has been struggle. In the next room the dis- executed in China' by order of a traught woman who was later charged with the murder, was lying British Court.

on a bed. Youngs died while being removed to hospital.

Prisoner's Collapse.

a man

With her life at stake, Mrs. At the preliminary hearing in Hadley, a widow, had preserved a the British Police Court, a Russian stole calm until yesterday. Then barber and his wife testified that when she told of her misary, of the they saw "a woman stab life of sordidness she had lived with a knife," with the murdered man, she broke was charged with down. She stabbing him in the neck after drinking bout.

Rumours of his having engaged in gun-running and various smuggling activities before going to Shanghai were deprecated by former marine Associates.

Although Captain Youngs was the possessor of a British passport and claimed to be an Englishman it was generally known by his friends that he often remarked that he was In reality a British gypsy. Hie Seller of Fortune. Five months ago Captain complexfon and features, were Youngs was employed Chief typient of thene nomadic people

Hia known the world over. Officer of the a. e. Shinon.

As

A pathetic figure in the witness friends describe him as a swaah- box, prisoner broke down before the buckling soldier of fortune whose Boarching questions of counsel and past is a mystery. starting from her life In a house of Since 1914, when he first came to ill-fame, narrated how she was the Chinn Coast Captain Younge

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