After a short adjournment, the Court' found all the prisoners! guilty and ordered that the first, second and fourth prisoners should Ibe handed over to competent Chinese authorities to be executed. The third and fifth prisoners were given 20 years' imprftonment each and the sixth 10 years, all sentences to be followed with' expulsion from. the Settlement. closing the case, the Assessor remarked, "If the father of the kidnapped. boy had come to Court, hho would have deen of much assistance, Hud ite the same courage ax the Chinese detective who gave his! life for the recove of his boy it! would not be so easy for such a Leong of criminals to work in the!
they did. It is absolute fawaniice which' enables gangs: of {would be remanded until to-day to citizen, Both he (defendant) and cerned, the Court refusing enable the French Mixed Court to hhix brother were born in Maca: over a British feste a warrant, If that Court The summons for immediate secur- subject who was not was taken to the offices of the Rodger: Bur he had his pass= issued one, the Mixed Court would consider it a prime facie case, In Shanghai Municipal Council and: ature, the Court thought, it would defendant's family had put Preston said that, he could security in the sum of Tls. 51,000. quote reverse cases. be better if. warrants were issued before persons were arrested Mr. Pan had lived here and eases like this. Tt was different in en compradore ut the Shanghai! the Portuguese Con yusen of murder where the person Municipal' Council for some 40) was handed up could be detained until a warrant years and had never been a party'|it was examined. was issued.
suit, therefore the que Mr. J. M. Tavi epresemting: Accuted way demanded—for nationality had never ofthe Chinese defendants) xpnteh, war from the wiluction of an offelal been raised before. Until the loiter forked the Court to set aly in Court from the Consul-General|date for the next hearing as his [French "authorities because for Portugal had been removed client wax anxious to vindicate his from the files of the Court he could town reputation, Counsel for plaint= jthe matter stood. there was no not proceed. However, if it were Mfs made certain statement which quest of any kind from that Court, "This short remand was made in order removed, he would be ready to involved a very serious reflexion on on with' the case, Defendant bad Wis clients Incegrits and he wished that the accused might not be kept definite orders from his Consul not {o-avail himeelf of the fret uppar= in the custody of the Mixed Court to go any further and he was in Pression it-must have produced on ity to destroy the ertoncuue fany longer than absolutely court only as a matter of courtesy. necessary, His client had previously been rethe Court, Counsel would partie presented by another counsel, who, Jealarly point cwt hat a British although aware of hie client's Plaintir had vend withdrawn and
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