Following upon the adjourned inquest last week on a mafoo who was assaulted by loafers outside a gambling resort on April 15, a Chinese was last Friday charged with the murder of the deceased.
he deceased mafoo, according to evidence submitted by the police, left his home at two o'clock in the morning to play dice at a house near the Fokien Road bridge. Shortly afterwards he was set upon by the prisoner, and two others who are still at large. The injured man was brought home in a ricsha and when taken by his wife to the Shantung Road Hospital, life was found to be extinct. From testimony heard at the inquest, it was learned that the accused and another man caught hold of the mafoo by the head and shoulders, and bumped his body several times the pavement.
From evidence given by prisoner it appeared that there had been cause for ill-feeling between. tthe parties. Three days previously to the night in question, the men had met together, and in a fight with the deceased, prisoner was so badly bruised that he was obliged to keep his bed for several days. Dr. Fischer, defending, said prisoner admitted fighting, and asked the Bench to amend the charge to one of manslaughter. Eventually a sentence of 10 years' imprisonment was passed on the accused.
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