"The adjourned hearing of the case in which Dong Sz-hai and six other Chinese are charged ing concerned together with one European, J. Allen, in the larceny of a quantity of opium from a shop in Tientsin Road, was again resumed on Monday at the Mixed Court before the British Mr. Grant Jones, and Magist Yui.
The. proceedings on Monday opened by evidence of arrest being given by Det. Sgts. York and Hunter.
P. Sgt. Elliot gave evidence concerning the sixth accused, who, he stated, had been employed by him as boy at the West Hongkew P Station up to the night on which the larceny had taken place. The sixth accused had entered his service in July of last year, and he had always found him to be perfectly honest.
Mr, Faithfull, for the prosecution, asked the Court's permission to withdraw the charge against the fourth accused, Sung Fok-sung. in order that this latter micht be put. into the witness box,—Permission was granted. but Sung Fok-sung's evidence did not prove to be at all illuminating. Although he had previously made a statement to the ice, upon an nearing as witness impossible to illicit any intelligible information from him urally the greater part of the ce heared during yesterday's proceedings. had a mere or less direct bearing upon P. C, Allen. the foreigner accused in connexion with this larceny. This being the case the Assessor, during the hear ing, specially requested the Press to refrain from publishing such evidence. it being liable to prove Prejudicial to the minds of the members of the jury who would be summoned for Allen's trial.
The further hearing of the case was again remanded until Wednesday.
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