Harry Christy, a foreign engineer, w: charged with assaulting a jinricsha cooli on the night of the 6th instant in the
sion of the affair was that as he was Nanking 'The complainant's ver-standing outside the Engineers' Insti-came out and asked him for a light. Com-tute on the night in question a foreigner
plainant handed him his lantern which the man walked off with, and when complainant ran after him he was struck in the face with the lantern, the wooden part of which cut him under the eye. The defendant stated that when he came out of the Institute he saw the complainant and a Sikh policeman, the latter holding a foreigner, whom complainant accused of assaulting' him. They all went to the station, where the complainant swore that he (defendant) was the man who had assaulted him.——In answer
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