'A case of kidnapping drow a largo crowd of native auditors to the Court this morning. The kidnapper had been in the habit of reutnear the Yang-king-pang, and of giving sweatmeata to a boy of six the child wi did not deny the charge, but stoutly refused to refand any of the mousy that be had received for child-stealing, although several persons who had aided him in the transaction refunded what he had given to them. They appeared innocent of the crime, The culprit was sentenced to be flogged from time to time until he gives back the money, There was another case that contributed to draw a crowd of specta Some women were brought up by the Hongkew police for assaulting a doctor and. breaking his sedan, He had been dragged out, and pulled and pounded by the women without mercy. The defendants admitted the charge and pleaded malpractice on the part of the doctor in extenuation, He bad inoculated a child for the small pox, the patient died, and as the doctor refuse to come and see it during iluess, the indignation of parents and fri was aroused, and they wreaked vengeance accordingly on the doctor. To further das his reputation, it was charged that while in this case the virus that he had inserted into the nostrils of the child was tuo potent, in others it failed to produce any effect." The case was dismissed, Chen, however, thinking the women ought to have spared the sedan,
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