Just at the time when Shanghai, on a story passed on from London, is getting interested in the question of privileged witnesses in Court, with legal and medical opinions being expressed, the Mixed Court offers an example from the Settlement itself. This occurred on Wednesday and the point raised was as to the recognition by the Courts of the Customs regulation that the names of informers shall not ibe disclosed. The senior British Assessor (Mr. A. D. Blackburn) held that a witness must tell everything in Court.
The case was the adjourned hearing of the charge of attempting to obtain money or goods by false pretences and by falsely representing himself to be an official of the United States Consulate, preferred by the police against Isaac of James Weinstein, a Turk, on the information of Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Mills, of Vladivostok, music hall artists, whose stage name is Hamilton. Mr. N. Langley Smith prose-ented on behalf of the police and Messrs. G. D. and F. P. Musso defended.
Mr. Langley Smith called James Simmons, a Customs officer, who said that whilst he was waiting at the examination shed for the ten-
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