Man and Woman Sent to Gaol for Purchase of Wife Several cases of abduction and trafficking in females were heard at the Mixed Court on Tuesday, Tsang Yi-sung, a 30-year old tailor, was charged under article 849 of the Chinese Provisional Criminal Code with abducting from the lawful custody of her parents a girl named Tsu Ab-ling, 19. The complainant was the girl's father, Tsu Sung-mo, Plain-Clothes Sergt. Omand informed the Bench that complainant brought the accused to the station and charged him with abducting his daughter who, he said, had been abducted on July 28. The accused was seen by witnesses to with the gin at the was last seen, but he denied the charge, said the officer.
The complainant was not in court the time the case was called and Chinese detective informed the Bench that he had gone to engage a lawyer.
Sung As-ong said that he the accused, who was a tailor 1i opposite his home. Hi son's daughter used to play with the accused. They had been seen quite often together but witness did not seo the girl run away. Li Ah-ryi testified that he saw the girl and accused together in rieshas in Dixwell Road at 11 a.m. on the day question.
The accused denied the charge! land said that the previous witness were members of the same family and they did not like him, P. C. S. Oand said that complainant had been notified to appear nave mixed with the loose wheat of the other conaigament.
The shortage in this particular lease was only between per cent. and 4 per cent. of the whole conminent which appears from the idence before me to be well under, the average shortage which may be: as much as 5 to 6 per Therefore the plaintiff having! failed to show that the defendants Idid not deliver £0 them the whole Jamount of wheat delivered to them by the ship Pawlet, and in fact the defendants having proved that they] felid. deliver the Whole consignment] received by themselves, judgment Jmust be for the defendants with costs. in court and he could not say why. the was not present.
The case was dismissed, Later in the morning Mr.
Schoenfeld appeared with the plainant and asked: for permission! to re-open the case. He said, the} reason why complainant "was "not present in court when the case cathe up was because he was with com sel in the latter's office, 2
'The Court, having heard con= plainant's evidence, decided. that sit would be useless to' re-open the ca adduced.
insufficient evidence had been
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