$200 Fine on Chinese: Assess or's Warning to Offender A Chinese was brought before Mr. Whitamore and Magistrate Zan at the Mixed Court Friday. Inst week on a charge! wf being in possession of morphin pills in the Settlement.
Evidence of arrest was given by Police-Sgt. Myerscough, who state ed that prisoner was held up by a search party on North Chekiang: Road Bridge when the pills wer found in his possession. At last] week's hearing prisoner denied that the pills were opium|Li pills and the Court had ordered an analysis. This was made the Municipal Laboratories and there it was found that the "pills were pink in colour and contained euffein, quinine, alkaloid and a-trace of strychnine in addition to morph-me, there being 1.13 per cent. of] morphine. One pill weighed 0.21 grammes and contained 0.00283] grammes of morphine."
In inflicting a fine of $200 of 21 days' imprisonment, the Magistrate warned the prisoner against, committing a further offence of this. nature. The present light fine was imposed cause the "prisoner "perhaps did not realize. the seriousness.of hi offence: Caffe morphine and alkaloid were far-more secigus that gplumsc of s tenge ent
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