Wong Kwai-chin, Mixed Court runner, and Ng Zang-san, Petition-writer were charged with being concerned together in attempting to extort the sum of $20 from the complainant daring August, 1908.
Ng Ching-yih, a shopkeeper resid. ing at No. 480 Tiendong Rond, said not be hard on yeo, if you pay $10 at least the bond will be forwarded." I said that IT would go and seo my friend in the cells and ask ity if he was willing to pay $10 for the bond, if he agreedfto pay that amount I would return and give him a reply, otherwise I would not give any reply. He said all right, and I left the house. I then went and saw Ching Yih-sung in the cells and told him that the ranner wanted $20 for forwarding the security bond. Sung said: "It is too mach. How is it that I have to pay $10 for my bond, while others pay only $4 or $5? Tam not going to give them $10; you don't need to go security for me; you may go h And I left the cells. The petition writer Ng Sung-sai came to my shop the same evening about 8 p.m. and he askeg, me about the arrangement for my friend's release, Ching Yue-sung, a friend of mine, was in my shop at the time (I had previonsly told him about the ranner demanding ed $10. for Sang Yih-sun; id to the petition writer that you want $10 for Sung's security bond? The writer replied in an angry tone: Yon had better go and ask the runner, and he left my shop.
This statement was corroborated by Ching Yue-sung.
The compl id: T am employed in " Dong Fong Teh " piece-goods hong on Nanking Road. On the 8th day of the 7th moon I was told by the shop-servants that a ranner had been looking for me with a sammons, and that he left. work saying that I should find the debtor, Dong Nyie-ching, for whom I had gone security and bring him to the teashop at the corner of Nanking and Chekiang Roads, and wait there for the ranner, When I heard of this I went and saw Dong, and he accompanied me on the 7th instant to the tea-shop where we met ronner Wong Soon who told us to wait awhile as he was going to calla detective. Shortly afterward a native detective came and showed us the summons and told us Face and Nose in Very Bad State—Tried Many Kinds of Soap and Ointment Without Result—At Last Completely Cured After
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.