Lal Singh Discovers' a Conspiracy: The Registrar in a Quandary Lal Singh, the grey-bearded old habitué.of H. M. Police Court, came up yet once' again before the Registrar, Mr, G. W. King, on Wednesday, charged this, it lued at $15. A shop assistant said that he saw the Sikh steal the cloth from a Honan Road shop, on which he raised an alarm. A nese Lal walking in the street with cloth under his arm and witness rested him on the assistants information, The charge-room geant at Central Police Station said that, through an interpreter, Lal told" him that he saw a small hoy rep the cloth and he picked it up.
The Registrar—Ah, findings keepings, I suppose. But that is not good law, Lal denied the whole of the evidence, saying that he did not take the cloth from the shop; he was not carrying it when he was arrested and he did not tell the sergeant or anyone else that he saw a small boy drop it and go he picked it up.
It was all a fabrication by Buddha Singh, the Sikh Jemadar. He ad. mitted having had a little quarrel with Buddha Singh that day and the Jemadar retaliated by framing this charge and telling the witnesses what to say. The Jomadar did not ike him and that was why he so often came to Court, because the police arrested him every time they saw him in the streets, He only came out of prison at 9 am, and noon the police brought this false charge. He could not possibly steal anything, because he was an Army pension The Registrar—You do not give me a chance, I have done all could to help you and 50 have the Police, and J would help you even now if I could, T must see if there is some way of getting you back to India. You are no good in Shanghai, Meanwhile you must ':0 back to prison for one month,
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