The Archive · 1930

DISTRICT COURT

Russian Charged with Assault

G. Pazaroff, a Russian building surveyor, was charged before Judge Loo in the Shanghai Special District Court on August 27 with assaulting Corporal Soldatoff, a Russian member of the Corps, by stu and shoulder with a stick in Jinkee Road on Tuesday night.

Court Inspr. Hall informed the Court that accused used to be in the Russian Ca., S.V.C, of which complainant was a corporal. Owing to his continued misbehaviour, accused was dismissed and as he came under the complainant, he thought the latter caused his dismissal and accordingly bore him a grudge.

Capt. Stepandsheff, Russian Ca. S.V.C., said that accused was an ex-private of his company. Witness was in charge of 120 men, including complainant. Accused joined in September, 1928, but was dismissed on the expiration of his contract.

"Accused was sent to gaol for 20) days.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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