15th September.
Before H: G. Dex: CasizresEsq.; cOonsul.
.M.-Poxics v.-Moses Scuwaarz.
"Moses Schwartz, alias Miskhi Schwartz, alias Lazar Schwartz,-alias Adolf-Wel man, was arrested on a Spanish" Consular warrant on a charge of being a'mpnace to the good order of the Settlements.
Mr. G. D. "Musso appeared, for the Det.: Insp..MeDowell—Kor, nearly 3} years: the.police in Shangh: had reason. to suspect that Schwacts undesirable character, and, on.ys occasions complaints. have been received from various sources regarding; him; but the police had not sufficient. prefer charge against him nat About: the..29th. of. July the; Gaptain Superintendent of the Police.wrote aletter ta the. chief., of the, police,, at -Caloutta, making searching enquiries regarding this man and it was. only yesterday. morning reply, was, received to, that Jetter.
part is all that [propose: ta,: bring the notice of the Court, at present. It is a copy of a letter sent to tha police. at Colombo in., response to, a,, similar enquiry.
(Lhe: letter was a.report from; the Inspector of, the Detective Department at Calcutta stating: that,, prisoner had been deported from Bombay, and Calcutta for keeping disorderly houses.)
'A few minutes before,, seven,:, p/glock last night we arrested Schwartz at the. Alnambra, Hotel... When... went into the Alhambra,, Hotel,.accompaniod by '.. Det.-Sergt.. Burnside,, we...went quietly up to Schwartz..who-; war at the bar, and, called the attention.of Mr. Newhouse: while T pointed, out the Consular seal and the date, and quietly-read the, warraut.to Sebw: Tadvieed him to go along quietly, because, the warrant was in proper order, but he, resisted and refused, and I, had to lay bands-on him, He pulled and drew, the attention of two or three other fcreignersa who were there. They did; not lay,.hands, on, the police, but I had to caution, them. -We, had to use a. certain; amount of forcg.to got Schwartz. out of. the. place. After that he resisted,.. and: I. intend, later ion to bring a charge of resisting. the; police. To-day I simply propose to ask for a rel week or so. I have searched his' premises, atid: found: documents in his possession, and I would like to draw the attention. of thet; Conrt,-to, these. All the documents are in Russian and German and other languages, and after having them.read we expect to bring hot one, but many more charges.
His: Honowr—I. shall -liave.an'inventory made of the, documents. There is only one charge against accused at present.
Insp.' MeDowell—We have not had time to- make out™other charges, as the time at our disposal has-been! so'limited. If we could only have: a remand'. for two days we might be able to: do something.
is Honour—I.can give: you's fortnight or. month, but it-would'- not be fair to keep the accused in prison.
"Inspector McDowell protested against the release of the prison:
-atrongly object -ta. any documents being put intos evidence;'as it cannot.be proved'thatithey: are: origioal documents. This is necessary bylaw. We
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