Shanghai, August 9. charged with being a menace to the peace and good order of the Settlement.
The Chinese complainant related the circumstances of the theft of the ring and another witness gave evidence of having seen the ring in the defendant's Detective-sergeant Vaughan stated that the defendant had been convicted on five previous occasions for various offences and had done no work for four years. He was a member of one of the: worst gangs of rowdies in the Settlement. Two other members of the gang' had recently been sentenced to long' terms of imprisonment for arson, and two others had recently been released from gaol, where they had been serving sentences of imprisonment for larceny.
Sergeant Morrison and P. C. Whiting also gave evidence us to the bad character of the defendant.
The Magistrate ordered the runner to be dismissed from the service of the Court.
An application for further punish. ment was refused.
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