China on Tuesday morning the was heard in which Mr, J. J. Keegan was charged with assault, and battery before Judge Purdy. The defendant was found guilty and ordered to pay a fine of G.$10.
The charge in full reads: That Jon April 16, defendant did wilfully, fully, and feloniously commit and battery upon George, to wit, did with his and a cane held in his hands, with great force and vioence, jure the defendant, trike, beat, wound, and inry 0 form and against the per and dignity of the United States of Amer-fea"
The defendant pleated guilty} funder extenuating circumstances; fand said that he came out of the Shanghai Club whilst the plaintiff was parading in front of the building. "He thought that he was a ssu fous character, and defendant told him that he was the chauffeur for a British oticer. On approach-ting the plaintiff, the chauffeur en-[gaged in an argument which ended defendant striking him with his stick, Mf, Vaughan Read said that he [was present during the latter part lof the quarrel and said that he heard the names which the Russian had Jcalled the defendant and sav him strike at defendant.
His Honour held that defendant 8 guilty and, therefore, fined murder and that fis motive was'to Jeet the dancer's Jewels, To refute this Dr, Fischer brought out that accused was known to have d in contraband goods and that would not have committed the murder for money, The defence relied chiefly on proving an alibi as to where Parshekoff was on the night of the murder. The evidence of a Japanese woman in a Hongkew bat, that of a police constable at West Hongkew station, as well as the accused's own evidence, was the principal which tended to show that could not have been at the scene of the murder on the night in question, In giving judgment, Judge Li said "The reasons for this judgment T have Inid down in writing, The same being rather lengthy I shall at the present moment only a general idea of the same Counsels of the judg-
"With reference to the tyre tracks on Grent Western Road it could not be definitely established that these tracks belonged to the motorcar of the accused. But we admit that it was the motorcar of the accused which was there on Great Western Road, there is no proof that the motorcar had a relation with the murder. And even if we do admit that the motorcar had a relation with the murder, there is so evidence to show who drove the car and committed the murder of the deceased.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.