Shanghai, 17th January. friend of one of the dents stated that th- other the money and that he had denied by the other del It was not known to whom the ring had been but it might be recovered if the C ko an order that the man la whose Before F. S.A. Bourse, Esy., Assistant Judge.
Cave Kee v, Tae Suaxonar Meat Surviy Association (18 Ligcipartox) aso Wiuiam Hexey Jacksos, Ligutpator it was should give it up. enquiries to be made and to vive the Police an opportunity of recovering the ri-
Mutiny on a Coas: ing Steamer.
Eight natives, including firemen, sailors, and quartermasters of the C.
Meat Supply "Association $96, being for rent was brought before the Court on a Con-Chuo Ko claimed from the Shanghai due for house No, 115, Broadway. sular warrant, charged with deserting their ship.
Mr. Stokes (Messrs. Stokes and Platt) Captain Baddel: d that on the 14th appeared for the defendants, and explained inst., as his ship was going down the river, thut the rent was at the rate of S48 per the in jumped overboard: Tmmonth for the months of August and Sep-"is the fireman came on tomber last. The Company went into deck and the whole of the crew stopped liquidation in August and were liable and left the s The crew who for that month, but in regard to payment, deserted included four quartermasters. ten the plaintiff must stand in the position of an sailors, and thirteen firemen. They lo ordinary creditor. He could not have a down two of the ship's boats and left the pry cli, as the Company was now in lit that one of the men, a liquidation, and the liquidator could not lor, now before the Court, was the n pay one creditor any more tha" another. Tye Grcourme the Company was Hiablo for the lade": ws ho actually came upon the bridge the br rent; they did not deny expected that his Honour would give Hone, ned they Base vy the, judgment accordingly. He thought implicated, including the compradore. that Mr. Jacsson ought to consider whether in the circumstances he should men now rt were before the principal offendes an he had not pay the full rent for August. Mr, Prineinal Brokee pointed out that the plaintitfhad lost Pointed. out as the otani es. a nowier se He was ru his right of distress through not e: it at the proper time. He wa as not in that 2 the top of his voice. the and down the dec ing out in Chinese He thonyht that position now, because there were no goods th quartermasters were least to blame. to distrain. They could not pay the amount ce Po to thd: Asuesane, Captain DAL: claimed unless his Honour made an order, acjoy weld' that when the cro' hip as they were desiing with other p-ople's he had to take the wheel and the anew had to be dropped. Two of the foreig At this stage plaintiff was called and officers were on the forecastle standing b said that he saw Mr. Jackson many times, the anchor. The boatswain jumped ove and he (Mr. Jackson) told him that if he board deliberately. There had been trouble ould wait till the money came in, the; on the ship in the morning, because the rent would be paid. Later on he said crow were smuggling rice. They h that the payment might te less than the bags of rice on board, a quantity much amount claimed.—Plaintiff said that the excess of the am thi property was his own. been confiscated I Judgment for plaintiff for 848 with cost ' ere allowd 1 a re 0 against the defendant Company, to rank 6 buy food the with other liabilities. he voyage to Swatow. thence tot Tt appeared that $48 rent for September ad buck to Shanghai, tok about 12 day: was due from Mr. Jackson and not from If the men took more rice than would last the Company, and this amount Mr.; them to Japan, it could be sold ata big Jackson now paid by cheque. profit there. He thought that the boat swain must have lost money by the rice being confiscated, and that was the reason f his suicide. The man was certainly drown d. He could not let a boat down to rescue th at the the, because the ship was immediately in front of another steamer a d was bound to keep on course according to the rule of the road. There were a number of sampans in the vicinity. The ship's boats had been return fed th ious evening, when the i. The No. 1 fireman pointed out were alnly the chief offenders.
The Court sentenced the two last-mentioned prisoners to 200 blows each and three month onment, and the other to 200 blows each. 'Their so ordered to be confiscated. 1 Court on Thursday morning ang (Magistrate) and Dr. Assessor), there were importance. 'The following case is, hav of interest those people connected' with the silk cad Who is the Receiver?
Tw shrotts employed at the Yuen Fat silk Filature, Matkliam Road, were charg-neemed together in steal-times since September, value of $1,000 odd. the pri the ishing department and_ usually st ped in the plac some time after the workmen had left. Their employers found out tha ities of sill yarn were tinually being stolen, 3 fell upon the prisoners. They we ud afterwards admitted that sine tember they had made a p stealing about nine ounces of silk a day. Phe silk was disposed of to a broker in Honan Road, and the prisoners said that they had received altos ther about $100 for stolen silk, one man having received and the other $47. This story was credible, because the value of the silk stolen. was at least. $1,000. The i as shrafs, were under a bond, lo to recover the value of the empl would therefore stolen. The police, however, Wished to yet hold of the ree all the $ tures in Shar had complained of t! ding to the rules of the sills yarn evuld not be din small quantities, and it was evident that there must be some he had ing of the the greatest importance iver should he discovered and arrested.
The police had watched house pied by the broker who had bought silk in the first place, but he had evidently heard of the rest, of the shrotls and had disappeared. that the pr nied fo days in ord the police should opportunity of discovering and a istrate at first wished to remand the prisoners in tue custody of the Mixed Court, in order that the ya ne of the stolen silk might be recovered.
tors Wilson and Chilver, however, the recovery of the money was not so important a point as the discovery of the receiver of the stolen goods, ant asked that the prisoners be remanded in the custody of the poli After soe argument, an order was made that the prisoners be remanded until Tuesday next in the custody of the Police.
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