On Saturday morning at about 11.30 o'clock, a child whose uncle and aunt are working in the Yungtsepoo Cotton Ginning Mill, while hanging to the sides of the Hall and Holtz Ca-operative Co.'s furniture van, as it was going towards Yangtsepoo, fell' over, and as he did so the wheel crushed his left foot and thigh, The child was taken by the Yangtsepoo police to a neighbouring temple where it died, The matter was reported to the Shanghai Magistrate by the tipao of the district and the deceased's uncle the came day, and on Sunday afternoon at one o'elodl the magistrate in company with magistrate of the Mixed Court, Mr. tai, drove to Yangtsepoo to hold the ytem examination. The preliminary wasanade at the Yangtsepoo ice Station, where the driver ut the i Chen Ab-chi, was questioned by the Shanghai magistrate, who obtained the following details of the ut from the man:—He said he was the van Inden with carpets and of the 20th inst. and when near the Cotton Ginning Mill he saw a child about. twelve years of age get up on the right hand side of the van and hang on in fun, He (the mafoo)
once used his whip to drive the child away but he got off and hung on again to the left hand As he was seated high up in the front. part of the van he did not notice that the child had fallen down and had been run over by his van. Could th child speak after the accident?" asked the magistrate, Not only could he doo, but he could also What proofs have you it up."
"There were a grent many lookers-on but none of them will be a witness on my behalf."
The Police Inspector then suggested that a barber and rice seller who lived in the vicinity would be able to verify the atxtenient, They were called, but no amount of persuasion could muke them say that they either saw or heard anything about the matter, The magistrate then called the uncle and aunt of the deceased and asked them if they had heard the evidence given by the mafoo, Ch'en his concluding that the child had et its, death by his own ischievousness. "Yes," said the uncle, but still the mafoo should not have driven on after the accident as if he wished to escape," The magistrate then went to the temple to hold the post mortem examination and found that the child's left foot had been crushed as well xs his thigh near the hips. A verdict of death through being run over by the furniture van was then given and the mafoo was then relegated to the Police for examination at, the Mixed Court the next morning. On Monday morning, the prisoner Ch'én Ah-chi was brought the Mixed Court magistrate and the Assessor, Mr. G. M. H. Playfair, the same evidence as already given was elicited. The Mixed Court magistrate said he would have to send the case into the city as he had no power to deal with cases where human life was concerned. The prisoner waa then remanded,
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