TERM OE HIS NATURAL LIFE.
CHINESE HOUSEBOY SENTENCED. FOR KILLING HIS MISTRESS. (Received 1.40 p.m.) VANCOUVER, June 30. Imprisonment for the term of his natural life was the sentence passed on •lack Kong, a Chinese youth for the murder of yirs. Charles Millard in April, afterwards cremating the body in the furnace. Ordinary life imprisonment would bring Kong out in twenty years, but imprisonment for the term of his natural life means that there is no escape from the penitentiary.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 155, 1 July 1914, Page 5
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