Sentenced fo "seven years' hard coe child of Mntden The allo in Mukden on a charge of manslaughter near the fend of last month. The German Consal-Gerenal and Vice-Consul, the American and Japanese Vice-Con-'Suls and a British interpreter attended the hearing of the case, which began on June 20. The defendant was an' employee of the Mukden arsenal. He has been in China of 20 years, most of that time in the employ of the Chinese Government, though he was at one time connected with a German Engineering firm in Shanghai. Mr. Scherer: speaks Chinese fluently and conducted his own case, The evidence for the prosecution was that the defendant had struck a Chinese school boy on the head with cane, inflicting injuries which caused the lad's death.
$600 Paid to Family.
The defendant gave evidence that the lad in question for a long time had been in the habit of calling him "foreign devil," and other objectionable names as the defendant was going to his work. On May 19 the Jad again shouted at him in this way. Defendant became angry, got out. of his riesha and chased the lad, who tripped and fell into a ditch, striking his head and causing the injuries alleged to have been inflicted by the defendant.
The lad died on May 28, nine days after the alleged assault. Defend-fant soon after the incident paid to the family of the deceased $000, and he contended that if a portion of this sum had been used to provide Proper medical treatment the boy would have lived. He asserted that the wound had been washed with ordinary water and that it had been kept bound up with a dirty rag, the result being that the wound became septic, and that neglect of the wound had caused the death, not the wound itself.
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