Customs Officer Acquitted of Charge of Aseault At the U, Court on Tuesday, B. Gaynor, a member of—the Customs service, was acquitted on a charge of violently assaulting a chauffeur in the vicinity of the Del Monte Cafe on the 11th ultimo, In a lengthy decision his Honour said that there was only one witness, the complainant, who testified to the assault. Several Chinese witnesses employed at the Del Monte Cafe and two Americans had deposed that they saw the accused there. Defendant said he was on duty at the Custom House from 1.10 a.m. until ¢he morning, and this was corroborated to a certain extent by three foreign witnesses. There was almost irreconcilable contradiction between. the two groups of witnesses.
Some one other than the defendant came to the Del Monte and told one witness: "I am the man that hit him (the complainant) -in the eye." It seemed quite possible that the oecussd was in some way connected with
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