Bar Boy of Portland Hotel Charged with Manslaughter: Mixed Court Proceedings After a week's remand the trial of Ah Tsho, charged with manslaughter, as a result of the death of Bernard Hurld, an American engineer, was begun before Mr. King, Assessor, and Magistrate Loh on Thursday morning in the Mixed Court. Mr, E. T. Maitland prosecuted and Mr. W. J. Schoenfeld appeard for the defence. The accused is the.bar boy at the Portland Hotel, at the corner of Seward and Nanzing Roads.
Practically the same evidence was given by the first three witnesses—Dr. T. B. Dunn, Dr. J. B. Fearn, and Mr. Moore of the Astor House bar—as at the inquest. The first named, who had performed the autopsy, said that death was due to a cranial blow delivered on the ton of the head. No fracture resulted but the brain was injured, a clot spresdinus as far as the check bone. Fearn said that Mr. Hurld pee at 7.30 p.m. on the day in question at the General Hospital, showing symptoms of drunkenness, which, however, resembled the condition of man recently injured as Hurld had been. Although sent away, he returned, escorted by a friend, some two hours later, when he was put to bed, and when seen in the morning was unconscious. Asked whether a man with such an injury would know and be able to say what struck him, Dr. Fearn expressed his opinion affirmatively.
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