A coolie was sentenced to receive one hun-red blows -and to be cangued for one mouth for stealing about 20-Ibe. of sugar from packages on board the P. and O. str. Zambes on which vessel he was employed. He e:
concealed it under his clothing. tracted the auger from the packages and The Escapes from Gaol.
Two of the eight prisoners who escaped a few days ago from the Louza Police Station, under circumstances which have been fully reported in our columns, have been arrested, and were brought before the Cout thi morning. One of them who bad serve two months of a six-months' captured in the French Concessio other was tracked to Najen, a village about 36 Ni from Shanghai. Here he pawned a pair of trousers to obtain food. 'The t stamped with the characte Jed to his arrest, though had travelled to Kading and back. This was the longest term man who escaped, having been sentenced to three years' imprisonment, or an indefinite period at the discretion of the police, and it was he who gained notoriety by filing the chain securing him in the hospital with a piece of an ordinary Chinese basin, The police did not ask for a further term of imprisonment in his ease. They only wished him to be flogged, and as regards the other prisoner application was made for an additional sented mouths' imprisonment together wit gging—200 blows in each case, to be given on the spot. Chen thought six months too much to add to th previous sented two months' of object to gi int said the flogging must lace er noon. The police objected to thi \d pointed out that in previous cases of the ind the banishment had been in-and pressed for the same this case. Chen for some time obstinate, and he was told that the iers would be back to gaol without the flogging if established custom could not be followed. The prisoners were accordingly leaving the Court, when Chen called then back and ordered them each to receive 200 blows, which were there and then 28th May.
Before the Chinese Magistrate Cox, and W. ©, Hunter, Esq., Acting British Assessor.
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