Insufficient Evidence and Unfair Trial: Shanghai District Court Some 250 Chinese crowded into the No, 1 courtroom of the Shanghai District Court on Saturday morning to listen to Dr. Cc. 'Tong, former managing director of the "Shanghai Journal of Commerce,' give his ground for leave to appeal against the sentence imposed upon him several weeks ago, i.c., three years imprisonment and deprivation of civil rights for six years, for obtaining by means of false pretences the sum of $5,000 from Zih Shang-chen, a girl clerk in his office who committed suicide several months ago. Judgment was reserved, accused to remain in custody. There were among the crowd members of ac-.cused'g and the deceased's family, and representatives of the Cantonese Guild (of which accused is a member), the Tungtingshan Guild (deceased's guild), the Shanghai Commercial Federation, and the Students' Union, as well as a number of journalists, for whom a special table was arranged.
The new criminal judge, Wang Jen-ming, was accompanied by an associate judge named Yang.
The accused was told to stand up. He said that his name was Tong Chih-tz (Fred. C. Tong), 42 years of age arid a native of the Nanhai district, Kuangtung. He
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