Building, Loan, and Investment Company, was charged with unlawfully obstructing and forcibly rescuing a native prisoner from the custody of native P.C. 772, on the Range Road, on the 2ist of July, 1905.
Inspector Bourke conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. F. Brooks appeared for the defence.
Honour first examined Mr. Bell as to his nationality, and in reply Mr. Bell said he was an American citizen, born at Hankow. He had" been resident in China all his life. His father was an American citizen. He had never app ed in the British Court as a' British subject. He had given evidence there ina "chip? but was not the det dant in that action.
'The witnesses for the prosecution were Mr. John Green, Ser; Jubnseu, Detective-Inspector' McDuweil, and native P.C. 772, whose evidence was to the effect that at 7.30 p.m. on the 21st of July Mr. Green returned to his house, No. 33, Haskell Road, situated just outside the Settlement limits, and found a large crowd of Chinese assembled in the: street. He saw a Chinese lying in a riesha, who seemed to have been seriously injured. 'The man was in a semi-conscious state. Mr. Green made enquiries as to' what had occurred and learnt that a Chinese watchman had assaulted the injured man. Mr. Green called Chinese policeman No. 772, and tave the watchman in charge, telling the constable to take both the watchman and. the injured man to the Police Ststion. He then telephoned to the Police Station and in response to his. telephone message Inspector McDowell went round to'seo him. Shortly afterwards Mr, -Bell, the defendant arrived, and asked Mr. Green what right he had to give one of their employees in charge outside the limits of the Settlement. Mr. Bell said that ho had got the man away from the policeman. Mr. Green did not witness the assault—Sergeant Johnson said a telephone message from Mr. Green about 7.0 p.m, and sent two men to Mr. Green's house, Half-an-hour later the injured man—a riesha coolie—was brought into the station. He was unconscious and was bleeding from the right leg and left arm. He was sent tothe hospital—Inspector MeDowell corroborated Sergeant Johnsen's statement as to the condition of the injured man, and said that he afterwards visited the. scene of the assault in company with native P.C. 772. Ho was also shown the place where the prisoner escaped, which was inside the Settlement, opposite the Nursing Home, and neat
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