Assessor) and Magistrate Loh Zau-tsoong were engaged all Thurs-Jday in hearing the casein which Zung Ming-wei, a Chinese houseboy from Shantung, Tsang Ping, Chinese P. C. 1462, in the Municipal Police were charged on remand with assaulting one Mrs. Koshnesky and causing her injury by striking her about the body with their fists at 48 Range Road.
Mr. E. T. Maitland watched the proceedings on behalf of the Comniissioner of Police, Mr. G, Sellett appeared for complainant.
The Russian woman's story, which was borne out by sever nesses, was that the her about the body with his clenched ists and that the constable, who is leged also to have struck her with baton, grabbed her jacket. he? (Lavghter).
Continving, witness said that he heard a disturbance in front of his house, which was behind that of complainant so he thought that he must have a look. He saw the foreigners hit the first prisoner, bot he did not see them strike the complainant. The foreign woman refused go to the station with the policeman, An oil shop owner who went by mistake into the dock instend of the witness box, corroborated this evid-
Ying Pei-shih, a cake-shop apprentice, of Hanbury Road, said that he was passing at the time when he heard a disturbance when he went to "look see." He did not see either of the prisoners strike empl 'A further remand was ordered, Boy's Complaint of I-usage The accused houseboy, in his own defence, said that when he was asked by a young lady boarder in the house (o get an extra cup of tea as she had a guest, he told his mistress who told him to speak louder. She said that he was no good and that hho had better go away as she did not want him any more. When witness ushed for his wages, she smacked face and drove him out. She that she would not allow him
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