A man was charged with being concerned with enocher not in custody in burslariously entering No. 79, Yants-p.o Roa, and stealing therefrom 'a quantity of gold and silver jewellery, 19 articles of silk clothing, one piece of sik clo"h, Zarticles of cotton clothing an 5 pieces of cotton cloth, total value $800, at 5am. on the 13th inet Sergeant M: Donild said thit ea the morning in quest. on Indian P. ©. No. 219 wax on duty in Yangtsepoo Rod, when he observed two men in the compound of the house, and their movements being suspicious, he accosted' them, whereupon they both ran away. He pursued avd caught the prisoner, and found on him put of the stolen property. Later in the day the witness made search in a place indicated by the prisoner, and in the bunding of the river dissevered other of the gonds, which had beet placed there for convenient removal. The value of the goods recovered was about $250. Witness thought the prisoner was an o'd criminal, as the marks of the chains were plainly visible on his legs, Lut the police hal no record of him, 'Alter hearing the evidence of the Indian constable, the Cent sentenced the accused to 500 blows, two months' cangue, two years' imprisonment', and depo tation. Kidnapping.
A may ana woman were chins kidnapping.
Inspector Wi'son told th: Court that the mother of the child in question liv Shaohsing, while the father resiled at pro-sent in Shanghai. Soise little time since the hes hand wrote t" his toenme 0 Shay Ca the journey dean the woman fell in with the accused, who made himself tecabl+ and promised to assist her finding her hushed in Shanghai. On arrival here t'e prisoner conducted the womn and child to a native hotel, and saying that he would fin! her husband, took th child and went away. Some time afterwards ho returned and said thathe had lost the child. The mother reported the matter to the potice, who found that the man had sold the child, who was six years of age, to the keeper of a brothel for $53. The wom m who was charged with the man pose? as the rightful mother of the child, and was paid $2.50 for signing a paper purprrting '0 bea sale nove of the chil' to the brothel-ke=p-r. The Jatte- had acted in good faith, believing the sellers to be the true parents, Afier hearing the evidence of several persons, including the wife of the male prisoner, the Court announced that the latter was as much to blame as the other woman, and order that her name should be added to the charge sheet. The male prisoner was sentenced to re ive 500 blows, to he cangued for one month, imprisoned for two years, and deported, while the women were sentenced each to receive 20) blows on the mouth. The father of the child was ordered to pay to the keeper of the brothel the 18, being the deficiency existiue be-\emoney recoverd from the male prisone and the sum phil for the child.
Fore ble Detention in a Brothel.
Inspector Wilson *aid that the prisoner, 'a Mrothel-keeper, was charged with having been concerned with her husband, who is the No. 3 runner of the Shanghai City Magistrate's yamen, in forcibly detaining the Complainant, a young woman, in her brothel, at No. 734, Fobkiex Road, from the 20th September till the 1%th October. The first intimation that reached the police concerning the matter was a paragraph ina Chinese "appeared that the complainant owed the prisoner the sum of $164, which she offered to pay, but the prisoner and her husband refused to accept it, saying that she owed them $400. Because the complainant refused to sizn a docu. ment certifying thit she owed the brothel-keeper hit suv, -h_ was Iveked up in a room for twenty days, the first four of which she was kept without ford. At tee and of that time the house coolie isterfered, saying that unless the woman were given fand she would die, and then the pris: ner would get no money at all, The Assessor taid that the person most ta Mame was the husband of the prisoner, who no doubt controlled her actions. He would communiert- with the Cty Magistrate and "sk Lim to punish the man, and he woman would be sentenced to receive 800 blows on the back and 100 on the mouth.
A Municipal Detective Impri soned. Re-hearing of the Case.
The case in which several men, includ ing Detective Lee Sze-chun, were sented need to £00 blows, one month's cangus, ons year's imprisonment and deportation for extorting $175 from another man at a Foochow Road tea-shop on the 29th September, was r-opened, Mr. Brown-Burke appearing for the detective.
The case was fully reported in our issue of the 7th ins'., and the evidence heard to-dav, wae mostly a repetition of that heard then. Mr. Brown-Burke salt that he intended to prove that the complainant was not visited by cither of the prisoners on the day when the extortion was alleged to have taken place, and that the detective was not in the lodging house of the com: plainant, at the tea-sh"p, or at the brothel, on that date at the times alleged. He woul! show that the prosecution arose on of a malicious conspiracy hatched by the complainant against the detective, because the Ixtter happened to enter the tea-shrip at the moment when a discussion regarding the ownership of the pipe in question was proceeding, and the complainant was afraid that the detective might arrest him or take some action likely to do him injury.
An exhaustive examination of the complainant by Counsel followed, in the course of which Mr. frown-Burke informed the Court that several of the ers given by the witness differed materially from he statement made by him to the police.
DetectiveSergeant Gilfllin identified the writing in-a book produce? as his, The entry was dated the 80th September, and was a record of the operations of the detective on the previous day, the ate of the alleg -d extortion, The entries tended to show that the detective was not at the tea-shop and o her places alleged by the prosecution at the times stated. Witness had k-own the detective for about three years, during which time he had always iven satisfaction with his work, and witness had never heard of any complaint against him.
The head coolie of the Foochow Road tea-shop was re-examined, and stated that onthe day in question, while the other men were arguing about the owner shop of a pipe, the detective came in and took part in the discussion. Witness heard him advise the mau who dai ned to be the owner to take the mater to the police station if he wa.ted any action taken, and the detective then left the premises, That was the only oceasim that the detvetive was at the shop on that date, At this stage the Court a journed until Monday next.
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