The Archive · 1924

Ten Years for Bund

Bank Coolie's Evidence: Asked if He' Wished "to Face Knife or Pistol"

Tsong Tsing-shing, self-confess-fed robber, who tried to take from coolie "a hag. with $6,000 the Bund a week ago and who was caught after a thrilling chase at noon, was an Wednesday" sentence) to 10 years' the imprisonment Mixed Court, 3 the Police Solicitor, Char defended.

Det lat. Hunter produced tol, commonly known the "bulldog" of 38 calibre, wit 8 three-inch barrel, and two daggers, one of which was found on the person of accused at the time of arrest, and the other taken from his bed when search was made at his abode! at 116 Broadway. Witness also put wrote himself in Chinese and which had been translated. One was written, said the officer, before the, preliminary hearing and the other more: recently.

Mr. ¥. Char (defending) elicited from witness that he had been told that accused came from a good. family, his father being proprietor car, and they would all say that he. of & pharmacy. In reply to further ross-examination, witness stated that as far as he knew the crime was a one-man affair. There was!

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