Another case of a Chinese taking; upon himself foreign nationality Was brought up in the Mixed Court on Wednesday morning—before} Magitrate Tsang and Mr. Scorra. Brazilian Assessor, when Siao Yung-we sued Yi Kung-sing for Tls. 3,751.
The petition was filed in July last year, and after the first-hear'
Fraud ¥xplained by Mental Aber-' the case was remanded, bail being ration: A Peculiar Story {allowed in the sum of Tls. 1,000. Following the hearing a letter was A 17-year old foreign girl, B. received by the Registrar of the Rowland, appeared before Me: Mixed Court from the Brazilian Yui and Blackburn at the Mixed Consul who claimed that Bravilian Court on Wednesday morning ya, face six charges of obtaining goods by false pretences, by presenting worthless cheques. t Det.-Sgt. Douglas appeared prosecute, and said that the goods obtained by the accused, which ranged from postcards to shoes, had been returned by the girl's guaruan. The girl had ordered £375 worth of furniture from Mafel Ca., and had given an address which the furniture was to be sent. The address proved to be a bogus one and the furniture was sani back to the factory. In connex with another charge the girl signed the name of Mrs. Sanders, 31 Hart Road, but upon inguiry it w found that this lady did not kno" ihe acoused.
The girl's adopted father sai that the girl had told bim she did interests were involved and requested that the case ko heard by the Brazilian Assessor.
When the case came before Magi: trate Tsang and Mr. Scorrar_ye: terday morning, Mr. L. K. Ken yell and Mr. H. R. Snyder appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. J. Zemiére for the defence.
At the outset Mr. Lemiére submitted that the present court was not a properly constituted one, that the Brazilian Assessor could not 3 iL in the case, and that the usual esser of the d should sit in-ead.
(r. Lemiere stated that his contention was made not because he was opposed to the Brazilia' Assessor but simply as a matter of principle, the plaintiff being registered as a Brazilian subject only after the petition had bee! filed. woman,.she would remain in the Door of Hope: there was insufficient evidence to frame a charge as Inspector Moore suggested. If further evidence was forthcoming a charge could be framed, but in the meantime, the woman would be required to sign a bond to put in an appearance in court next week.
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