Suspicious Case and Benefit of the Doubt As the result of an eloquent appeal by his younger brother Chinese boatman who appeared ut the Mixed Court on Monday before Messrs. Kuan and Blackburn, charged with being ithe owner of three Mauser pistols and 320 rounds. of ammunition, was given the benefit of the doubt and released, though the Court remarked, the evidence against him was sus-Picious.
Inspector Aiers, of Gordon Road, appeared for the police, and said that, noticing two men carrying a bag of bedding to a boat in Ferry road, two Chinese detectives attached to a cotton mill followed them. Upon reaching their destination the detectives asked when ther or not the bag contained cotton, quantities of which had been disappearing from their mill, The boatmen replied in the negative jand invited the detectives to make 'a search, which they accordingly did. Among some bedding they found the pistols and the ammunition. The matter was reported to the police and the accused and two other boatmen, who had since been: released, were arrested. The ac-Jeused said that the bedding had been entrusted to his care by a man named Wang and he (accused) did not know that if contained pistols.
This evidence was corroborate-a iby the twe mill detectives.
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