Show I OLD MAN s lO HIS LIFE Chinese Murderers Hire a Substitute I PECULIAR ORIENTAL CUSTOM Killed Partner I and Threw Body Into River Decrepit and WornOut Chinaman Paid to Shoulder the Rcspon 1 sibility of the Crime Vancouver 15 C Oct 20 Three Chl nose arc clmruoU with the murder of another an-other Chinese at French Bar Iq l st sum mcr The tiial will begin at Clinton 13 C on Wednesday It Is said that the two younger of the prisoners have Induced time third und oldest to accept the onus of the crime The provincial police say that following the Chinese custom the two young prisoners have paid the old man for his life One morning1 two Chinese who lived and worked at French Bar allpell1 ell alI i the nearest i neighbors with a story that I i their partner had been murdered and his i bodj thrown Into the river by a Chinese I who lived six mlcs below French Dam r i The accused man was arrested He i turned Jut to Le a wakmlnded decrepit i od man who hal scarcely vigor enough J to walk lie I denied knowledge of the I crime As It did not appeal possible ft 0111 i IL physical I point of view that the old man could have comnitlod the murder much less drag the body to the river I the two Informing Chinese lusty younjc men eic arresinl and also charged with the mm der Although denying absolutely any knowledge of the cIme when arrested the old Chinese stoutly proclaims that I he alone did the killing |