Yih Ding-song, alias Yih Sean-dei, wax charged with having feloniously killed one Koo Yue-ching by stabbing him in the region of the heart with some sharp instrament in Chefoo Road Mr. goods belonging to witness were sent to the Fu Chen hong, but gods entrusted to him by others were sent other hongs. When witness wa Hongkong or Canton he bought snd had them shipped to different places, There were sundry account books at Hongkong in the care sipping hong which did business for witness. There were certain medicines witness could buy in Hongkong, but of in Canton. Witness sent up al! inds of goods from Hongkong to Al goods shipped from ton were the products of K kwangtung province. The Fu Chen hong rendered witness accounts of Soods sold, stod hand and cash received, periodically, Mr. Wilkinson announced that he proposed to enter a nolliproseyui with regard to the three accused. The reasons as stated were their apparent innocence and he considered the ends of justice would be served thereby. The Police Magistrate could do nothing else but commit the men. Unt it was ebrious that burglary was not the men's object and he thought it was not right of him to occupy the time of the Court on " mere technicality. Even if they were returned guilty he thought his Lordship would have sentenced them to a short term. That being so and taking into consideration the fact of their having been in gaol for some time he entered the plea of colli prose-
Mr. Vouglas—My clients are in the position that they shoald not be har-cut and wounded one Tsang stabbing him on the neck with a sharp strument in an alleyway off North Yunnao Road at 6.12 jin. on the 9th instant.
Detective-sergeant Macdonald stated that the body of the murdered man lay ut the Mortuary awaiting the Chibhsien's inquest. "The facts of the case were that about 5.10 p.m. a native woman was walking along North Yunnan Road in company with an arrish, when the accused rushed up to her and snatched from her hair gold ick. The woman shouted out "Thieves " and the accused made his escape up an alleyway. There an old man, 64 years, was sitting, and hearing the shouts and seeing the accused running, made an attempt to stop the latter. The accused stabbed
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