Wong Lai-sung, brought before the Mixed Court bench last week on a charge of conspiring with others to recruit men in the Native City for the Fukien insurgents, was discharged on Wednesday, Mr. Blackburn and Magistrate Yui being dissatisfied with the evidence.
The Chinese authorities made spplication for the man's surrender for trial at the City Procurator's Court, it being alleged that the prisoner, with " number of ox-soldiers, intended to leave Nantao, for Fukien to join the insurgent army. The Shanghai and Woosung Constabulary arrested several of the men, including a man named Fu, who had been made sergeant. Sergeant Fu told the native police that Wong Lai-sung and his brother were the chief conspirators.
Two further witnesses, called to corroborate these allegations, were unable to do so, so the bench decided that there was insufficient evidence to commit the accused for] ete. trial by the Chinese court.
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