Five Chinese Charged at the Mixed Court A large find of pills containing strychnine was made as the result of lan opium raid at 695 Peking Road on December 17. In this raid five arrests. were made, the accused being brought up before the Mixed Court Jon Tuesday morning, Police evidence was to the effect that in a back room were found a large number of pieces of raw opium land also a very large number of pills fin tins stored under a bed, jand black, the latter quantity of the deadly drug. second accused was asked to taste a quantity of powder made of sugar, [This he did but when asked to taste lone of the black pills he refus ido so saying that it contained strych-Mine. The first and third Imade written statements to 6 the second accused carried on this business. - An analysis was made by the Public Health authorities which showed the pills to contain the The second accused when question jed denied having any knowledge that. the goods were on the premises. [When asked by Mr. Maitland (for ithe prosecution) why he had refused to taste the black pills he could give ino satisfactory explanation, The second accused was sentenced to three months imprisonment, The first and third accused were sentence fed to one month or a fine of $100, while the other two were dismissed, Mu, W. R. Walter was fined $2 by Mz. G. W. King in H. M. Police [Court on Wednesday for failing to, Jobey the traffic signal of the French' policeman on duty at the corner of JAvenue Edward VII, and Route Porte clu Nord,, at 6.80 pam, on the 19th. instant. The constable. told the Court that he blew his whistle holding up the Avenue Edward VIE traffic to allow the cress traffic to pass, and defendant took no head lof it, simply carrying on and narrowly avoiding a collision with an-Jother car. Joseph Bishwald, the river of the second car, corroborate fed the policeman's evidence. De-{fendant told the Court that he knew nothing of the offence, as he ssw Ino policeman on duty at that point and heard no. whistle,
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