We recently commented on a case in the Mixed Court in which a Cninese named Wong Fub-ling applied for the arrest of another Chinese named Cha Zer-ching on a charge of attempted extortion. In support of the charge the plaintiff produced a letter, purporting to have been written by accused and said to contain a threat. Mr Arnold, the American Assessor, was sitting with the Magistrate and the latter claimed that it was a purely Chinese civil case on the grounds that the letter contained nothing of criminal nature; that both parties lived outside the <ettlement
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