Mixed Court Orders Deportation of Count de Savine; Savage Outburst in Dock There were some exciting and violent scenes in the Mixed Court, last Friday, when a Russian who claims to be Count Nicolas (or T.L.) de Savine was brought up on an application that he be deported. Mr. A. D. Blackburn (British Assessor) sat with Mr. Ivanoff (Senior Consul's Assessor) and Magistrate Loh. The police assert that de Savine has an extraordinary international record, in cluding 20 years imprisonment in Siberia and terms in France for sedition. In a few days he will complete a sentence for forgery and they want to be rid of him.
De Savine is a venerable looking man, not unlike Tolstoy, but he showed a fiendish temper before the case was ended. Whilst waiting for the Assessor, he sat bent almost double and apparently in great pain. When ordered into the dock he made a great fuss and collapsed to the floor, on which a police sergeant remarked: "He was all right when he came into court. This is all sham; he has done it before." This sent the prisoner into a torrent of abuse and before he finish ed he was straight as a rifle barrel, gesticulating wildly and jumping about in the dock.
Mr. R. C. Faithfull, appearing for the police, said that the prison- 7 er served a term of six weeks' imprisonment in Shanghai for writing insulting letters to the Russian Consul. After that he was sentence ed to 18 months for forgery andi
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