Lawyer's Successful Appeal at Mixed Court Commutation of the death' sentence to 10 years' imprisonment, was the happy fate of an armed kidnapper at the Mixed Court on Monday morning, Mr. S. A, Moss, Pleading for accused, who had beer concerned in the attempted daylight kidnapping of a Shanghai Waterworks foreman, and the woundin'y by shooting of Mr. J, Broadley on February 25, told the Court that his client was unwittingly connected with an affair, the magnitude of which he had no conception. Fur 15 years he had been employed as servant in one family, and had, never before come to the attention of the police, In responding counsel's plea, Messrs. Whitamore and Zau, indicated that they would not entertain a similar motion from first accused, already proven a leader.
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