SAN FRANCISCO, April 15' (A.A.P.). - A Court at Fairfield, California, was sympathetic yesterday to a Chinese farmer who tried to have his wife slain so he could collect 10,000 dollars (£4,500) insurance money.
Ralph Fong, 23, pleaded guilty to trying to hire two airmen to kill Mabel Fong, 21.
He was sentenced to four months' gaol and fined 1,500 dollars, but the sentence was deferred so he could harvest his pear and prune crops.
Fong said he wanted the insurance money to pay arrears on his farm. He loved Mabel "too much to kill her myself."
Mabel embraced her husband in court and said: "Everybody has been very lenient; I still love him." She had refused' to sign a complaint agamstherhusband. Wednesday 16 April 1952 The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW
TRIED TO HAVE WIFE KILLED FOR INSURANCE MONEY
FAIRFIELD | California), April 14. - A. Chinese farmer who tried to have his wife slain for 10,000 dollars insur- ance money won leniency in court here.
Ralph Fong, 23, pleaded guilty to trying to hire two airmen to kill Mabel Fong, 21, for 1500 dollars. He was sentenced today to four months in gaol and fined 1500 dollars, but sentence was deferred until next autumn so that he could harvest his pear and prune crops.
Fong said he wanted the insurance money to pay arrears on his farm. He said he loved Mabel "too much to kill her myself."
Mabel embraced her husband in court and said: "Everybody has been very lenient. I still love him."
Mrs Fong refused to sign a complaint against her husband. She also raised bail : and has been living with him since he was released from gaol in January
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