Ten natives were charged with pub-liely gambling in Li Hongkew on the 7th instant in sheds erected for the Pronives was made by Taspectors Lynch urpose,—" id on 1 lors' and Armstrong, and Detectives Brown Kingston, Burnside, and Bookless—Inspector Lynch said that the rendezvous, of the gamblers was frequented by all the loafers and bad characters of the Settlement, This was the second raid upon the place. A short time ago the place was raided and twenty-nine men were arrested. On that occasion they were sentenced to be bambooed, but that seemed to have had no deterrent influence, and in this case he suggested a fine. The place was difficult to approach, as the gamblers had so many scouts out, and it was only possible to raid the place with a small body of police. The gambling business was run by some wealthy man residing in the Settlement, of whose identity the police were as yet unaware. When the police entered the sheds all the gamblers jumped up and upset the tables. There were several people gambling there, but the police were ay ae to arrest the men now before the Court—The Magistrate ox-amined the prisoners at groat length, after which they were each sentenced to 300 blows and two woaks' cangue.
The Re-opened Extortion Charge.
The Court delivered judgment in the case in which Chu Zer-ching, a farmer, was charged with attempting to extort by means of threats the sum of $50 from the complainant, Wong Fub-ling, a tailor, al his house in Kwenming on the repudiation of a marriage contract, and the defendant living outside the Settlement, caused the case, as is customary in such circumstances, to be accordingly turned over to the native Court. The Magistrate tried the case and ashe found no proof to corroborate the charge, and and as Wong had meddled in this lawsuit, the magistrate took it to be a false accusation, which according to Chinese law is punishable with cangue or deportation, and Wong Fub-lin; was therefore sentenced to five hundred: blows. Prior to the next sitting the American Assessor obtained sufficient new evidence to justify a re-hearing of the case and accordingly on the 2nd of May the case was again heard. The case was twit remanded in order to obtain further evidence and every effort was made by the Court and by the Police to ascertain the truth, that justice might prevail. This, coupled with the testimony of the party who read the letter to the complainant, to the effect that there was but little of the letter which he could decipher, only a few of the characters contained therein being at all intelligible to him, the Court is unable to o"nvict the defendant and orders
sufficient security to assure his future goo that he be released upon his giving conduct.
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