The trial of William Cuthbert, a seaman, on a charge of having on the 200 of October wilfully murdered James Gerard on board the British ship Port Caledonia, then ivin in the harbour of Nagasaki, was comment in H.B.M/s Court at Yokohama on Thursday last, the 9th inst,, before Mr. Justice 'Wilkinson and jury.' Mr. Litchfield appeared for the Crown' and Mr. Lowder for the defence. Prisoner pleaded not guilty. The trial was concluded on Saturday when the jury, without retiring, found the prisoner Phe Court. passed sentence of five years ity of manslaughter but not of murder. penal servitude. The sentence will be served in the Government gaol of Hongkong.
SUICIDE OF AN OLD CHINA HAND, Early on Thursday last Captain Waddilove, late of the Indo-China Co's 8s. Yuensang, committed suicide by cutting his throat with ".razor..im his. room in the" Club Hotel, Yokohama. He arrived at the! the Germans, the rumour being that they hotel about the 17th of November, and! were occupying the place for The drank heavily during his stay there. He first news of the murder of the foreigners seems to have tried to pull himself together, was to the effect that the robbers had carried for he told one of the Europeans in the es- away the heads of the unfortunate men. tablishment: From to-morrow I won't drink any more." By direction of the manager of the hotel he was not allowed anything stronger than beer or soda-water. He appears to have eaten very little during the last few days of his life when, according to the testimony given by his friend (Mr. Harry James Sharp) at the inquest, he was much depressed through receiving a notice of dismissal from the company with which he had been for about eighteen years. The jury found that the unfortunate man, William Waddilove, came by his death in the early morning of the 9th of December, by cutting his throat with a razor whilst in a state of temporary insanity.
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