-on Saturday morning, after the long intermission, attracted largo crowds of "Chinese and a good many foreigners to the Chekiang Road tribunal. All through the disturbances of the preceding week the neighbourhood of the Court, whose functions had been the cause of so much angry discussion leading up to the riot, remarkably quiet. The gate separating the magistrate's private quarters from the Couct-yard was closed, but the Court itself had been loft open for any curious persons to ramble through at will, a steay coolie or two alone appoaring. All this was changed on Saturd To guard against any possibility of dis turbance, the Court was guarded by strong detachments of armed bluejackets, de. tachments having been sent from warships of every nationality represented in port. The prisoners, of whom x very Inrge number had accumulated, among them many.who had. been arrested for rioting, were brought to the Court under escort of armed Sikhs and thus the place bristled with. bare bayonets.
Apart from the crowd, the bluejackets, and the bayonets, the procedure wi usual. Two magistrates sat simultanoou: Mr, Kuan sitting with Dr. Merklinghaus, the Gorifian assessor, downstairs, while Mr. King, with Mr. Schirmer, the German assistant assessor, dealt with less important cages in the upper Court.
The which had been adjourned from: the last sitting (when the disturbances took place) were further remanded for the sitting of the British assessor.
A large number of prisoners charged with trivial offences were dismissed with a.caution, as they had already been in -eustody for several days. 'The police had made several arrests of persons who chad been seen to have taken part in the disturbances of Monday snd Tuesday, the 18th and 19th. The majority of these wore identified by police witnesses and -were sentenced to six mouths' imprisonment each, One of the rioters, a riesha coolie, was iden!.ing tried to stab a foreigner with net in Nanking Road on the 18th i and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. A native of Tsungming, who was proved to have been one of the mob who isos of the International 8th. instant and who was gun Jooted from the said promises, was sentenced to one syeac's imprisonment; while a coolie who "was found in possession-of fifty rounds of -atomunition stolen from the same: store was awarded six months' imprisonment. Four men'arrested -by the Mixed Court stunners and found in' the possession of fighting irons "were sentenced to. six -months':-imprisonment each, and: two others arrested ina' similar manner wore Throe men were charged with looting a native house at the corner of Yuuman and Pakhoi Roads, the scene of "Monday night's fire. The ringleader was sentenced to six months', and the other two to three months' imprisonment. A coolie charged with escaping from Lenz: station prison was awarded one: month's imprisonment. A native woman charged with obtaining jewellery by false pretences was sentenced to four months' imprisonment in the Mixed Court Four men evilly-disposed persons, assembled and disturb the peace and good order of the Settlement, and also with being concerned together in the murder of a native, whose dead body was found in a creek' near Ichang Road. Evidence was given to the effect that the principal prisoner was a well-Known desperado and that he had frequently been seen in company with suspicious characters. These prisoners wore remanded for further enquiries.
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