2nd accused, cook, aged 23.
Q—Were you arrested by the Police at 10.30 a.m. on Juno A—Yes, at that time a bundle of straw carried by me dropped on the ground and was picked up by others and I was trying to collect when I was arrested, I was going along Nanking Road and had called a wheelbarrow man to carry the straw. At the time T came to the spot lots of people care from all directions and wanted to pick up the straw, but I told them "No, no; that is mine. It was ordered by my master and cost At that time the wheel barrow coolie absconded and I was arrested and was struck by the policeman twice.
Q—Is it the duty of the cook to buy straw?
Q—Did' you have anything in your pocket?
A—Not a single cash, Q—Did you have a mateht AXNo, Ido not. smoke.
Q—Can you identify anpoee who struck your A—A sergeant dressed in ord ary clothes.
Cross-examined by Mr. Mait-Innd:—You work in the shop just opposite? ie 1 work in a shop on Kiukiang Road called the San Tha Hotel.
Q—Was there not a trail of straw from the shop just opposite on to the tram Jinest 'A—The straw was being carried cross the road and it, wna, not hound sufficiently by the wheclbarrow coolie..
'Q—There were bundles of straw each side of the tram lines!
'A—Other people threw them aside and I went to collect them.
Q—But you were putting it on the line yourself.
'A—No, 1 bought it myself to cook rice with.
Assessor:—Is this place where he works near where this took placet 'A—Not very far away.
Q—Where did he buy the straw?
A—Loura Bridge.
Q—Why did he go along Nanking, Road?
'A—That was the easy way. I was crossing the corner of Nanking and Fokien Road when the bundles dropped to the ground and I was arrested Q—That is the straightest way to your place?
Q—Why did it become loose right on the tram lines?
"A—At that time several thousand people were gathered there. The wheelbarrow went amongst them anti it became Ioove there and the bystanders picked it up and threw all directions. I began to-collect it and when the foreign police came the crowd ran away and I was the only one left to pick: it up.
Magintrate:—Where did he purchase' the straw?
'A—Froin a boat, and my master is still holding me responsible for In_answer'th the Assessor; aéc+ anised said' there was no one from the shop, in Court, "His master lid not know: he Was "arrested.
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