At the Mixed Court on Monday morning before Mr. Chang (Magis'rate) and Mr. S. F, Mayers (British Assessor), six mop, two described as a banker and manager, respectively, and the other four as servants, were charged with being concerned in assaulting the complaint, x Municipal detective, Yung Sai, on the 23rd inst., by knocking him down, beating him with their fists, kicking him about the body whilst on' the ground and dragging him into an alleyway off the Tientsin Road and hanging him up by his queue to a post fixed in the wall. Also with tearing. his jacket off his 1d causing him to lose 7, which was in his pocket, and to lose his shoes; the total value amounting to $13.50.
Mr. D. McNeill (Messrs. Dowdull, Hen-son and McNeill) appeared on behalf of the police and Mr. A. M. Latter (Messrs. Drummond and White-Cooper) for the Captain-Superintendent A. M. Bois-dragon watched the case for a little while on behalf of the police and then left the Court.
The Court thought it would be best to hear the detective's statement first.
Yung Sai, called, said that about 6 p.m. on Tuesday he was on his way from the Bund and stopped his riesha at a tea-house in the Tientsin Road. He went upstairs and his ricsha man' stopped downstairs. About a quarter of an hour afterwards the ricsha man came and told him his ricsha had been broken. He went downstairs to see the ricsha and suw four or five persons around the riesha, and he told them to go A carriage was coming down the which was very narrow in that par' and several men were standing in the middle of the road and he told them to stand back. One man turned to him and said he could stand in the road if he liked and then swore at hit (the detective). He told the man that it seemed he did not understand reason; the man then turned and hit him onthe neck. Complainant then wanted to take the man to the station and caught hold of him, the man also catching hold of witness, and the onlookers tried to separate them. ' The matter seemed about to be settled when a wan named Wong came up ana caught hold of complainant's queue and told him to accompany them they all went in the direction of the Bank Complainant wanted to go to the Police Station. On nearing the bank several other persons came and caught him by the hair, He was able to recognise them all distinctly. On coming to a lane complainant refused to enter it. He seized hold of a door to avoid being dragged into it. A number of coolies from the Bank then got hold of him, and he fell. While lying on his back, they dragged him in, The banker was parsing at the time and complainant told him that he was a detective and, thinking he was a respectable man, begged him 10 go to the Police Station, but for a reply he received ick and was told to get inside. Another respectable man was standing at the entrance to the Pao Ho Bank as they approached. He tried his best not to he taken inside, but the crowd pushed him in. This latter respectable-looking man kicked him also. When in the Bank four men tied him up by his queue, using bad language the meanwhile. He told them he was a detective and they could go to the Police Station if Caf had anything against him. They replied that they cared not either for the Police Station or the foreigners. He forcibly stooped down to prevent the men tying him up. A man who was.not properly dressed came and tied his queue to the pillar. When this was done a native constable, No. 479, came into the room.
The men who tied him up were in the Court and were pointed out.
Complainant, continuing, said he caught held of the constable's hand and asked him to blow his whistle for assistance, but when the constable attempted to do so a man (indicated) tried to snatch the whistle from him, Complainant tried to untie the knot on his queue with one hand. He was holding on toa man whom the constable had hold of. The constable had three men under arrest when be untied his queue. The men did not try to go from the room. The constable entered the room by pushing open the door. He assisted the constable to take the three men out of the room and was assaulted again in doing so; the police on arriving were also assaulted. Defendants desisted upon the arrival of Indian constables. 'Two other Indian constables, Nos. 99 and 151," came up when they were at the' entrance of the lane, and he (complainant) told them to arrest the two gentlemen (the banker and the manager) who had kicked him. One of them had kicked him only once, the other several times.
In reply to the, Assessor, complainant said the time that elapsed from the quarrel in the street to the time he was taken into the Bank was about half an hour, but he was not quite certain. The alleyway ran out on to the Tientsin Road. The time of the occurrence was about 6.30 p.m. There were no constables in the Tientsin Road at the time he was crying for help.
Sergeant Ross, in reply to the Court, said there was no constable on that road at that time; the nearest was stationed at the corners of the Nanking and Honan Roads. The case was brought to the Station at 7 p.m, The Magistrate at this stage expressed some doubt about the statement made by complainant as toa large crowd acting in a desperate manner when the arrest of three men was effected.
Complainant in reply to Mr. Latter said he was in the tea-shop. Tt was a shop he seldom visited. There were two little scratches of the paint on his riesha. He did net know what the crowd was there for. He did not enter the stowd. He only spoke a.few words with his ricsha coolie. He saw no silver dollars about.
In reply to the' Court—He did not know for what reason they dragged him into the alleyway. The man who struck him did not go away at the time, By Mr. Latter—He not know how Jong he was on the threshold of the Bank. He maintained the two gentlemanly-dressed men kicked him and they followed into the closed room. He saw them there all the time, He was not pliced in a chair at the Bank, He was tied up immediately he got there with his feet just touching the ground. He denied assaulting one of the defendants when in the cells at the Station, Sengt. McIntosh, called, said the men were placed in the cells for prisoners whose cases were to come off. There were no other persons in them undergoing sentence, There were others there awaiting trial and some men who were awaiting deportation. That was the last arrest in connection with the case, Native police-constable No. 479, called, said he passed by the alleyway and saw a crowd in the Rank, There were about 30 40 people there as near as he could judge. On entering the Bank he was told y the onlookers that a native detective was being assaulted. Some one opened the door, and he entered unopposed, He did not have to force his way in. He saw the complainant in a standing posture, leaning against a post. Complain-any's feet were on the ground. A man (indicating one of the defendants) was behind complainant and was tying his queue, Complainant was crying ab the time and resisting. He did not seo anyone strike the detective, He (witness) was struck by a man who tried to take his whistle away. He could not say for certain if the two Chiness" gentlemen (the banker and the manager) were there at the time.
Indian constable 51, called, said' he took three of the defendants tothe Station, on the instructions of the detective. He saw the two bank officials on the way.
Indian constable 131 said he arrested the two bank officials in the alleyway, having been told to do so by the detective, ative constable 479 had signalled to him when he was in the Nanking Road. When he arrived at the Bank no arrests had been effected.
Mr. Latter said that one of the men named Cheng was a money collector of the Bank. On the day in question he was passing the tea-house in the Tientsin Road, when he saw a crowd around the riesha who was being scolded by the e. Cheng was starting and the detective becoming irritated slapped hit. He had $50 in silver and two bank orders in one hand and a chit book in the other. During the scuffle the dollars were knocked down. The detective then kicked the dollars away. The man cried out for assistance and a defen'lant cams and gave him assistance with the object of taking the detective to the Bank to report the loss of the dollars and then to the Police Station, First of all the other defendant, who had come up list, thought he could leave the detective with the money collector and went to the Bank report; when he came back he assisted in' dragging the detective to the Bank. There they met one of the Bank officials, who asked them not to use violence. When the police were taking the prisoners to the Station the manager
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