The trial of Charles S. McKinley, electrical engineer, charged with forging a Jerter with intent to defraud and with uttering the letter with intent to defraud, was concluded at the Crimi-al Sessions of the Supreme Court on the 30th ult. The jury found the prisoner guilty and the Cuief Justice sentenced him to fifteen mouths' imprisonment, intimating at the same time that if he had had the power to award him hard labour he would have got it, The case was avery bad one, the letter! having been forged to get another man into trouble with the Customs authorities at Tongking as a smuggler of opium, and asa matter of fact the victim was both fined and imprisoned.
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