Assessor, and Magistrate Yui at the Mixed Court on Thursday the remanded hearing of the charge of larceny against Dong Scz-hai and six other Chinese was again brought up. The charge, it will be remembered, is that of being con-corned together in stealing and carrying away a quantity of opium the property of Ying Kyun-oen, shipowner of No. 459 Tientsin Road Mr. R. C. Faithfull appeared. for the prosecution, Mr. R. F. Master for the complainant, Mr. G. D. Musso for the first accused. Mr. H. D. Rodger for the third and seventh accused and Mr. J. Em, Lemiére for the sixth accused.
Mr. Faithfull in outlining the case for the prosecution said that the seven men charged were concerned together with P. C. Allen in the larceny from No. 450 Tientsin Road of a quantity of opium valued lit $10,000 and six opium pipes. The moving spirit in the larceny wes the first accused, Dong Serhai, who was formerly a boy to the prisoner Jack Allen, at the West Hongkew Police Station. He and the others had met together and had arranged to carry out the business in conjunction with Allen. Dong Sez-hai was evidently intimately acquainted with the premises where the deed was committed. He had also engaged the services of the* chauffeur.
Opium Upstairs any Down.
On the evening of the affair, counsel continued, two of the accused had gone to the plaintiff's shop in ricshas, while the others had driven there in a motor car. After knocking at the door Dong had asked for a certain Chinese, but upon being told that he was not there he had said that it was of no matter as they had come to search the house for opium. The owner of the house said that he had no opium but, notwithstanding this, the men entered the house together with Allen," and searched an upper room where they found, under some furniture, a jar of opium and some pipes. Downstairs Dong approached the telephone and taking a key which was hanging there, had proceeded to open another room in which there was found, under the floor boards, a recess in which a large quantity of opium was stored. After having removed all the opium, the men returned to the motor car and drove away. By Dong Ssz-hai's orders they were all driven to his residence in Chapei. The following evening Allen went to this house and the proceeds of the sale of the opium were divided.
Immediately after the search party had left the shan in Tientsin Road the proprietors had telephoned to the Police Station to find out if the search had been
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