Do you consider this agreement gives yeu police functions?—No, have never claimed them.
Do you propose to bamboo other people—lt is quite impossible for me to say what Tmay do in the future.
You held a sort of judicial enquiry into made 'n few enquiry ordered these men to be bambooed shed as loafers, Esaved the last inese witness from being killed.
And bunbooed him afterwards 2—Yes.
1 what Me. Jones said just now I understand that he contends thatthe measure of the punishment as represented by the prosecution is Mr. Parks;—He cannot be held responsible for everything that yoes on there.
Mr. Jones—I saved a great analy of these men from having thole lives out of them. These men were actually" f ting. Tam quite prepared to admit th they were given 10 blows with a rattan, The luod" of the River Police deposed that he was on the Police hulk, and saw through a telescope Mr, Jones pursuing a Chinaman and besting him, Me. Parkes—What sort of a telescope was it; it must has been a pretty 1 one 2—It was a long one used by met -of-war.
Did it occur to him that he might have done something ~The Inspector was ashore, and T did not think of reporting it, There' were others on board but they were at tiffin, Alfred ith, in charge of the Customs: godowns at Cross-exainined—He did not know what. the man had done, but, anyhow, he could not have deserved such' punishment.
This closed the case for the prosecution, James Jones, sw that on the sta you strike any of these men when they were being taken to the Mill 2—I do not know, I stopped the row.
When you got them up to the Cotton Mill did you take them kneel down Yes, hut aot on the gravel as you stated.
Did you strike any man" beewuse he would not kneel down 2—N What did you do toa mar who refused to kneel down {I showed him my stick, named Moh Ab-mow give re you?—No. I made ensible p: One man is of Taotai's rank, quiries from certain men who were respon-
John Caratz, timekeeper ut the Mi spoke to the men being taken into thy Mill, but knew nothing of the beating.
'The Magistrate, at the request of Mr. Phillips, saw one' of the complainants in his private room, Mr. Parkes in addressing the Court said the question was as to the amount of eredence to be attached to Chinese and foreign vlenee, here was no doubt. " tive took immediate steps had to be taken Phoy had seen how useless Polive were-—that they went to aked theongh telesepes when a as yoing on, Me, Jones was respon sible for 4 lot of valuable property, and if he had not-acted with vigour great damage might have been done, His action was to be commended ¢ than blamed, and that view was taken of the matter by his superiors. Recently th-y hat heard of Leaptain of " British man-of-war flogging some evolves caught thieving, and nothing had been done.
His Worship said he did not think that had anything to do with the ease; two blacks did not m white, Mr. Parkes concluded by remarking that the case showed how useless the River and Native Pol forms broken up. The over a distance of 150 yards, pushed his way through and released n of the were ringleaders he handed over to Sikhs and other j watchmen and told them to take the men into the embound. When everything was quiet witness enquired into the ease. Hy found that one of the complainants, barber, had imported sixty) men fron Shanghai, and his rival had brought forty.
His Wo uiving his decision, said that qu Hing the distur:
was concerned, and stopping a very ious Incach of the Tones only did) what any ordinary 'British subject, or other subjee', would naturally do. He had " position of considerable power over there, and to the extent that he Na riot he acted well within his But when they came to dealing punishment to. the subjects of the Emperor of C ina it opened up a very orions question, He was reluctant to me Mr. Jones in the case, He He went into one house where everything, did not take the view which Mr. Phillips was smashed up, whilst kerosene had been had laid cmsiderable stress upon, that it spread about and x couple of boxes of was a jacticularly brutal and' savage matches were lying on the top of some asswnlt, because he (the Magistrate) knew rubbish. There must have been at least something of the. punishment meted out 2,000 people in the street at the time he on this side of the water to Chinese. got there, and about 200 were engaged inj Me. Jones had put in an agreement: the fighting. With regard to the punish- which was only with a private. citizen, ment, he had ten blows given bya small and it did not give him in the eyes Portuguese. Fourteen men were beaten, of the Court any jurisdiction. In the hut the story had been greatly exagyerat: ' present case three men had objected to ed. It all arose out of a row amongst what had been done and had appealed to barbers over a woman. He had an arrange-* the Court, If he upheld Mr. Jones he ment with the Customs Taotai by which he would be giving himextraterritorial jurisdic. Iwoked after the sanitary and other tion over Chinese subjects, which even arrangements of the place. When the Queen Victoriahad not got. Whether these
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