"When my litle boy was about four (be ix now about ix and a 13 and 14. The yamen-runner was sent down from Ningpo to arrest certain robbers who had stolen $2,000, odd, worth of money and goods in February last at Ningpo and sums of $400 and $500 in March last. On his arrival in Shanghai in May, instead of endeavouring to arrest the robbers, he employed the runner's second to identify the men and obtain payment from them for allowing them their liberty. When arrested, the ranner's second had admitted that he received money from the ners to allow them to remain at large and as a result of the information he gave, witness was able to arrest four members of the gang and the yamién-ranner himself.
The Court found that the description 8 dispatch from the Ningpo authoriies of the men required to be arrested did not tally with the appearance of the four robbers before the Court and these were, therefore, ordered to be expelled ft the Settlement. The runner and his second were ordered to be sent back to the Ningpo authorities for trial,
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