Messrs. Yui and Tenney, and made an application for reduction sentence in the case of one Tsu Ping, a young mar of 19 years, who was sentenced on April 20 to six months' imprisonment for forge ing the name of Mr. Van Chi-mi on a cheque for $2,620 and presenting it at the National Commercial Bank for payment.
Faison said that the complainant In asking for leniency, Mr.
had no desire to press the charge and in view of this and the fact that accused was a first offender there could be no_ reasonable objection to the sentence being remitted. The boy's father, he said, had come to Shanghai from Soochow with a view to taking the boy home and correcting him. A prison sentence, thought counsel, would tend to make a criminal out of the young fellow.
Superintendent Vaughan, for particular circumstances of each the Police, strongly objected to ease. remission or even reduction of the This Court, as a Chinese. Court, sentence, and said that there cannot admit that the mere fact of would not, as counsel for appellant birth in a foreign country is suf-had suggested, be any danger of ficient to turn the child of -Chinese turning the young man into a parents into a foreigner, nor, with hardened criminal. He denied every respect to the Consulates that complainant was willing not concerned, will we accept the cerfito press the charge. ficates of foreign registration as "He has been placed in the first conclusive against the jurisdiction. offenders' cells," said Superintend-of the Mixed Court. ent Vaughan, referring to the In future, when foreign national-accused, "and that means that he ity is claimed by defendants of has been placed in a different place Chinese origin, we propose to_as-from the old offenders. The Coun-certain not only where defendant cil has gone to a great expense in was born but where he is domicile having this, a separate building, ed, whether he owns land in the erected apart from the old offend-interior (which a foreigner may not ers' cells. Accused is not required do), whether in trading he has held to work: he is taught to read and himself out as a Chinese or a for-write. I don't sec how this can eigner, and. generally whether he turn him into a hardened criminal 1 thas asserted his foreign nationality as course] intimates." and denounced his Chinese nation-Continuing, Supt. Vaughan menality; or has, on the contrary, mere—_ tioned that there were still 24 chely kept his foreign nationality con-ques not yet accounted for by accealed like a trump card to be play-cused. ed only in an emergency. And, The number of forgeries in retaking all these facts into considera~ cent years has increased considertion, we wil] then decide whether ably. In 1917 there were 17 cases; to take jurisdiction or not. in 1919, 25 cases; in 1920,°19; in 1921, 20; and although not half a Nor Concrusive. year has passed, there have al-In the present action the defen-. ready been WI cases this year," condant did nob appear when summoncluded the Superintendent. and judgement was given by The application was refused. default. We are now shown a letter from the Consul-General for Portugal, who states that defendant
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