Last Friday morning in the States Court for China before Judie Milton D. Purdy: the case was continued in which Brian E. Naidis, an unrecognized Dutch subject, is claiming G.84,000 from Grant Mark of said" that he "attended Badawa- for malicious arrest, which the Dra A. D, Wall on' Monday of" the China' Finance Corporation
Singh in hospital.
His condi- plaintiff alleges cost him his position tion and the" manner of his as. salesman for recovery rather puzzled witness Gestetner, Ld. at the time. Subsequently witness Mr. W. S. Fleming appeared for was informed that there was a possibility of the man having taken poison and he now could. say that his condition wag consistent with arsenic poisoning, After examining one of the copper bowls said to have been used In the dairy for boiling, milly witness said in argwor to Mr. Priest-, wood thet there was verdi-gris on it, This might cause a mild poisoning and make a person ill. Witness could not say of his own Knowledge that Badawa Singh had arsenic poisoning.
Badawa Singh said that some time ago his cows and the defendant's became mixed up. Two Sikh: came in as arbitrators and the herd was divided, but witness and defendant continued to conduct their ies in the same hut in Chinese territory. Witness said that he became ill after drinking some tea 10 which he had put boiled milk. the milk was from his own ce A coolie who had some of the milk also becdme ill ing, a brother of Badawa Singh, said that when the fatter and the coolie became sick it Iwas thought they had cholera.
The Pin Pricking Cure Chinese doctor said Wednesday that he was called the dairy in Chinese territory shared by the accused and Badawa Singh and he saw two Indians who were sick. He could not now recognize them. He they had cholera, so he camphor oil and sent them to has pital.
The next witness described i self as a "professional pin-pricker." He said that he also was summoned to the dairy, where he found Chinese unconscious.
He was told to tive the man "acne puncture," bat witness thought thesman had chole~ xa. He pricked the man in sever places,-"'and then he opened his Thouth, got up and went to lie down fpn, his bed.". Witness did not prac: tige..as,.a doctor. If was, a. nating custom' when one did not feel well, ithe plaintiff and the defendant was represented by Mr. F. J. Schuhl and Mr. H. R. Snyder.
The case of the plaintiff was completed on the previous day as was most of the evidence for the defence] and last Friday's hearing was given over to the hearing of evidence of) minor evidence and argument of, counsel.
At the beginning of the proceed-lings Mr. Fleming said that the Court had asked if the minor, bein a minor, could bring the action and said that he did not know at the time he filed the petition that this was the case. However, this was not grounds for dismissal of the action. The matter could be ad!jasted by merely amending the "petition so that a friend or guardian} could bring suit. He also stated! that the plaintiff came under the jurisdiction of the Mixed Court and thus had the status of a Chinese to be punctured, "and then you get better."
Mr, Priestwood—You say the man was better when you left. Do you attribute that to your treatient?—Yes. When I first went, he could not speak and there was blood coming from his mouth, but when left he could open his mouth and speak.
The witness added that ing was only a side-line wit really he was a cardboard-box mak. ex. He was asked to treat the {dian as a charity and when he was offered 20 cts. for his troable he! refused to take it.
This closed the case for the prosecution and Mr. Priestwood asked for a dismissal, on the ground that there was not' sufficient evidence upon which to frame a charge. There had not ben any evidence the accused with the Kpossession or administration The Magistrate framed a charge! of murder and the accused, who said he was not guilty, but, otherwise reserved hig defense, was [for trial. citizen. Such being the case, Naidis had reached his majority, which war' 16 under Chinese law.
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