The Archive · 1928

Protest Against Trifling Sentence

Dr. F. Ramondino, sitting Senior Consul's Deputy in the Provisional Court, on 'Thursday, with Judge Tseng,' lodged a protest against n sentence of six years! ime prisonment imposed on an unom= ployed Chinese, Accused, with a hawker, was charged with having had in his possession on January 11 a 32 Mauser pistol and eight rounds of ammunition, and further on his own account with having committed an armed robbery at" 1481. Wachow Road on November 28, 1927, when clothing to the value' of $80 was stolen, and also having committed an armed highway robbery in Jun-kin Road on December, 1927, when he secured $150 in money.

Dr. Ramondino's protest reads og follows—"I reserve my right to protest in this case for the extremely light sentence given to the first accused. The police should appeal against the sentence".

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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