SEVEN HEADS CHOPPED OFF
CRIME OF CHINESE COOK.
REVENGE BELIEVED MOTIVE.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright
Rec. 11.30 'p.m. Shanghai, April 25. A Chinese cook, using a email butcher’s chopper, beheaded seven fellow employees in a leading hotel while they were asleep. The motive is believed to be revenge owing to the employer’s refusal to permit the cook’s marriage with one of the household slave girls. The latter disappeared with the murderer.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1930, Page 9
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