'a jury, Herbert Law, a private in the Border Regiment, ' 1st Battalion, on Lee Song-tsze in a house in alleyway off 19 Elgin Road about 1 pam. on April 23. On the bench with Judge Grain were Col. H. F. MacGeagh, Deputy Judge Advocate General of the British Forces in China, and Mr. Quo Taichi, Commissioner for Foreign Affairs.
Mr. A. G, Mossop, the Crown Ad. vocate, appeared to prosecute and the accused was undefended. The ary was composed of, Messrs Watson, S. A. Sayer, J. Abbass, Bei Sheela and We Lawrond The Crown Advocate, before opening the case for the prosecution, addressed the jury as follows:—"As the prisoner is not defended by counsel to-day in this, trial, consider it my duty to make a renes of you which would undoubt be made by counsel for the} defence, It has been brought to my attention that a certain Shanghai newspaper has seen fit in its own! columns to pre-judge this trial, and) that has been done in spite of the fact that this ease has been auh judice in this Court since the: beginning of this month. Of course, conduct of this kind, I need hardly} say, is universally recognized as being not only mischievous, but most improper, nexion with: the murder of Sirdar [Sahib Budda Singh.
is Worship, in making the com.
lent said:—"In connexion with this prosecution, T have decided to [frame the following charges: "For that you Gujjan Singh, Ishar Singh and Hari Singh at Shanghai during +|March and April, 1027, were ai lcessories before the fact to the murder of Sirdar Sahib Budda Singh by one Harbant Singh—con-{trary to Section 2 of the Accessories land Abbetors Act 1961,"
"For that you Gujjan Singh,' Ishar Singh and Hari Singh at Shanghai on divers days between March 23 and April 5, conspired together with one Harbant Singh to murder one Sirdar Sahib Budda Singh contrary to Section 4 of the offences against the Persons Act 1861."
The accused were cautioned in the usual manner but reserved their statements, They will accordingly bbe brought before the judge of the Supreme Court on a date to be fixed.
Tae case in which two Indians are charged with sedition was heard in! camera on Saturday by the Magis-' trate, Mr. I. T, Mirris, in H. Bf.
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