Anckyun was ogam brought, before Messrs. Martin and Kuan at the Mixed Court on Monday ing charged with being in possession of two pistols and number of! Jcartridges. The ease was remanded from last week to enable two detective seconds to appear to give evidence and be tress-examined, Mr. E, T. Maitland prosecuted and, Mr. R.'G. McDonald: appeared for, the accused.
Ho Foong-we, a shopkeeper, said that he went to the Chaoufoong Road Jetty (where accused was arrested) with the detective. He assisted in arresting accused and saw the two parcels which contained the munitions taken from his person, In reply to Mr. McDonald, witness described how accused was taker to a tea-shop and said that he anda friend watched him upstairs, while another remained downstairs and the detective went to. notify the police station by" telephone, He did not have any conversation with accused, Sikh' P. C: 409 told of the arrest by the detective and, in cross-examination, said that was; about 16 or 17 yards away" from then at the time of the arrest, He did not see clearly what happened nor did he see the parcels in question.
Tsu Jong-sung, in the auctioneer's business, - corroborated Ho Toon, wo's evidence and denied having any conversation with accused. He went up to accused and felt something hard about his back, This was taken out and a further search Jrevealed two newspaper covered parcels. He had no knowledge of the contents of "these but, when asked by the Magistrate' if he thought they contained opium, he replied in the affirmative.
'Yen Sze-ming denied having any' conversation with accused when he; was watching him but accused said to him "We are our own men and we can talk it over." To this he said nothing. Later witness admitted saying to accused that it was official business and, if he wished to talk it over, he could do police station,
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