ject Sentenced to Imprisonment for Four Months S. IT. T. Sores subject, appeared be Court on Tuesday en, a Daniv Fe the Consula: connexion with the ite I seizure of opium from the!
Co.'s str. Kaho on March 3 and was sentenced four months? impr jonment, to be servs by Messrs. wral and Pro-nid V. Meyer Assessors, Evidence was given to the effect that a shipm 1. of opium had been ent from Swatow to a Chinese named Yang here in Shang. hai, but, as Yang feared that the smugglers of the drug would cheat, him of it, he arranged with Sorensen to seize it. With two other foreigners, who, like himself, were former employees of the Chinese Mant Customs (including Arthur Perey Agate, a British subject who was entericed recently to three months' imprisonment at the British Police! Court), and a gane of Chinese loath ers, he went on board the steamer!
arrived at Pootung on the question and, under the that they were Customs officers, they seized $7,000 worth of been xcereted in: the pantry the saigon.
This was placed on hoard motor launch and landed at} french Bund where Yang took charge of it. Accused was in civilian clothes at the time but the two other foreigners are alleged to have worn Customs uniform.
The plot was revealed the next) Jday when real Customs officers boarded the vessel and were notified that the Customs officials had already visited the steamer the evening befure. Inquiries were mace and the bogus Customs officers were discovered. At the request of the Commissioner of Customs, the Danish Con-ular authorities effected the arrest of Sorensen, who pleaded 2 Court! this connexion we are asked to state that a misunderstanding arose with regard to the statement made by the Danish Consul-General to our in our leading appears that while preliminary investigations are held privately, in order that. their effectiveness shall not be stultified, the actual trial is always held in open Court, a pro-endure, which, the Consul-General informs us has been in force ever since 1905.
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