Fight Chinese Charged with Rioting The opening day, Monday, of} thy trial of the men held by the police in connexion with the disturbance at the New World some time ago which ended in a Sikh] receiving a fatal bullet wound and a Chinese police constable being badly wounded, proved some-What disappointing for the many people who flocked to the Mixer Court in the anticipation of he: ing an exciting story. Mr, Forralolo and Magistrate Loh decided to hear the charge of rioting against eight men separately and to hold back the murder charg: against another until the other hearing was finished. Eight very respectable looking young Chinese were accordingly marshalled into the dock and in front of them was a formidable array of eight legal gentlemen, with a score of interpreters and clerks.
For the prosecution, Mr. R. 0. Faithfull called—Detective-Sub-Inspector Kiloh, who repeated the evidence he gave at a former hearing to the effect that the police had ascertained that there was an} allegation of a woman having been insulted at the New World. Demands for an apology and monetary compensation followed and led to repeated quarrels between various partisans, who formed into groups. These quarrels were severa] times stopped by the police and attendants at the New World, but eventually led to a man drawing a pistol and shooting down the Sikh and Chinese officers, This evidence was borne out by a Chinese who had been arrested as having been connected with the affair, but who gained his freedom by turning State's evidence. This man identified all the prisoners as having been present at the New World on the night of the shooting} and said they were all concerned in the quarrel which immediately preceded it.
Other witnesses were called, but were able to speak only of the acta] shooting, though individuals amongst the prisoners were picked out as having been in the New World that night...
The defending ccungse] submitted that no charge of rioting had been made out and said that, at the
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