with the murder of the Chinese detective The Chinaman named Lai Mit, charged Lai Tak-sing (No. 218) in Chukhing Lane on the 12th ult., and recently captured on the mainland by a Hongkong detective and handed over to the custody of the Military Mandarin of the Sunon district, was tried at Namtao on the 9th instant. Inspectors Stanton and Quincey, the Chinese detective who ran the prisoner to earth, and several witnesses were present at the trial. At first the prisoner Lai Mit stubbornly denied having any hand in the offence laid to his charge although he had previously admitted his guilt, but when the mandarin ordered the crime, He then pleaded for an early him tobe fogged he gave in and confessed to execution if he had to suffer death, so that he might not be kept in suspense. The magistrate said he would consider his request, and he was removed. The prisoner will be executed at Kowloon city, but the date for garyiog out the sentence has not yet been fixed.
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