The hearing of this adjourned cave was renined this morning, the Taotai having deputed Ca'ar, th i ith Chen to conti of three neighbouring tu (who were again brought up in company with
red as having been in a measure responsible for the disturbances), and a man who, it was alleged, was the ringleader in the i proved at the former exami ion it was also verted that a man named Ku-tering was the real instigator of the disturbances throughout, with two others whose names were not known, The repro of the district now said that search for Ku-tsung had been made, but no one of that name lived in his di Feng-feng now cbnoged tory, and in reply to questions, eaid he id not know who Ku.tsung was, The Ningpo man who was among those carried off by Feng-fdng's men, recognised the prisoner charged with squeezing as being among those who carried him away, Cu'ar prolonged the questioning of Feng. fang as to the whereabouts of Ku-tsung for some time, but failed to elicit anything further from the prisoner; but one of the topoos there was a man named Ku-tsung-pin, school-master, living in lst tu.
CueN then' questioned Feng-feng as to this mau, and said that if the man Ku-tering could be found and proved to have fomented the disturbance', his (Feng-{6ng's) punishment would be lighter.
Feng-feng still denied all knowledge of Ku-tsung, and said that Kwo, linguist to the manager of the railway, promised to find work for six men, and went to Shanghai for that purpose; but when ho came back, he said he could not do it, as the foreigners had got all the business in their hands, The six men were therefore disappointed, and raised the disturbances. The promise was made eleven days before the disturbances, in an eating-house in the Maloo.
The man who was charged with having Been a ringleader in the squeezing of the $21, was now questioned, and he of congee jonied all knowledge of it, Much time was then occupied in a conversation between Chai, Chen, and Feng-fog, the endeavour being to make the latter con fess his complicity in the affair. The prisoner, however, fenced every question so cleverly that nothing more was elicited from him than. at the previous examin:
Mir. Eppowss, stationamaster at the Bar and Creek Stations, was then called, and identified four of the prisoners aa having been-
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