Bu Yung-sai, described as a broker, was charged at the Mixed Court on Tuesday with having uttered a worthless cheque for Tls. 5,000 at Shanghai on April 19. The complainant was Mr. S. Mugato.
Det.-Sgt. Quayle stated that the accused signed a contract for the purchase of a ship from some Japanese, and ho had to put down Tls. 5,000. He gave a note-of-hand on a certain bank, and when the Japanese went to inquire they found there was no such bank. They went back to accused and he said he would furnish the money on the following day, but he ran away, and was not seen again until Monday, when the Japanese found him and brought. him to the police station. The police thought it was a civil case, and referred the parts to the Mixed Court, but later in the day they received a message from the Japanese Assessor asking them to detain the accused as it was thought he was likely to abscond. 'The accused, added' witness, had a bad record.
Acoused was remanded for trial before the Japanese Assessor.
Jiv-sitsu-
In the case of an unemployed Chinese charged with stealing part of a bamboo fence from a house in Avenue Road, P. §S. Spurgeon stated that when arrested the accused struggled violently and witness had to put the "handcuff hold" on him. He tried to twist out of it, and consequently broke his arm.
The Court discharged the man and sent him to hospital, saying they thought he had been punished enough in getting his arm broken.
Troupe witH Two WIVES:
'A Chinese girl appeared in answer to an unusual "'charge'—that she "did seck the protection of the Door of Hope."
She sought protection of the police, stating that she wished to go to the Door of Hope because her husband and his other wife had ill-treated her badly. They had driven her out of the house, and she had no money.
The husband appeared to claim the runaway, saying that he had given her money and treated her well. He had never beaten or abused her.
This conflict of evidence put, the Court in a quandary, an official solution being found in sending the back to her hushod.
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