In H, M, Police Court on Tuesday before" Magistrate G. W. King. 'One. the case of Sangat Singl 'Sikh watchman charged with maliciously endeavouring to seduce soldiers from His Majesty' Tegiance and with breech of the public peace came up for hearing, Mr. E, T. Maitland prosecuted, the accused had no counsel. Witnesses cal-Jed in for the hearing gave testimony that on March 21, at about 6.15 p.m. Yiree Punjabi soldiers and one Punjabi non-commissioned officer were accosted by the accused in the 'Wayside district, and treated to a conversation of' seditious nature. One of the soldiers, according to the testimony, returned to his officer in charge with the information and efter a short period had elapsed during which the other three soldiers kept the Sikh under. sur. veil tance, foreign police constable speared on the scene to arrest the accused.
Acting Inspector in charge of the Wayside Station, George Morran, who arrested the accused in Hanbury) Road appeared as the first witness. He said that accused had been taken to the station, charged with the charges before" the court, _and cautioned, At first the offender had no statement to make, then later said that he had not spoken to the Indian soldiers. Still later, accord~ ug to the testimony, Sangat Singh declared tha: he had spoken to them Dut not against the British Government.
Sikh Police Constable, 219,. bore out Inspector Morgan, and the accused given an opportunity to '@peak on his own behalf denied having said that he had not spoken to the soldiers.
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