Result of Suit in French Mixed Court The owner of the motor car. which killed Mr. C. R. Sadler, on April 19 on Route Stanislas Cheval-for, must pay Tls. 7,000 to Mrs, lier, according to the verdict of the French Mixed Court. The chauffeur, who drove the car at the time, was sent to gad for one month $200. Mr, da Pac de appeared for Mrs. Sadler, while Mr. d'Auxion de Ruffé defended the chauffeur.
As may be recalled from cor ae-count of the proceedings in the U.S. Coroner's Court, deceased met his death when he was thrown from is motor cycle whilst driving ward the Bund on Route Stanislas Chevalier, the motor car going in a westerly direction. Although in the French Court the defence wished to establish contributory. negligence the part of deceased alleging that he tried to pass several ricshas, police officers, who made a map of the situation, showed that the motor car was on the wrong side of the road.
"Three Men Arrested After Year's Search: Accuseds' Admissions After 12 months' hard work an? Jcontinued investigation, the police} now have succeeded in arresting three men who are alleged to have! taken part in the murder of the former foreman of the Shanghai Waterworks Ca, in North Thibet Read on July 2, last year.
The accused were unemployed Cantonese and their names were Lok S-yoong, 25, Ling Soo, 30, and Yang Zau-yao, 25, and they were charged at the Mixed Court, on Wednesday, before Mr. A. J. Martin (British Assessor) and Mr. Kuan Chun (senior Chinese Magistrate) with murdering Chu Wei-zien in North Thibet Road on the date in question by shooting him with a bullet from an automatic pistol.
Det-Inspr. Conduit, giving form dence of the arrest, mentioned that the accused admitted to him that they were paid by the General Labour Union to assassinate the foreman of the Shanghai Waterworks Ca, during the strike last year be-league he declined to be drawn into the lines of the strikers. Inspr. Conduit applied for a remand in order to enable the police to pro-secure their inquiries.
The cafe was remanded sine div.
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