Three servants and a compradore were before the Court on remand, charged with having on October 15 been concerned together in making counterfeit bank-notes, to wit, 4,500 bank-notes of 100 coppers each on the Hupeh Provincial Bank, with intent to put same into circulation.
The accused had been arrested in a raid made by the Police on a lodging-house in_ Fokien Road on the evening of October 15, when two of them were found stamping counterfeit notes and the notes were seized.
The case had occupied the attention of the Court during several hearings, in which Mr. R. C. Faithfull conducted the prosecution, Dr. Fisher represented the Chinese Government, and Major Chauncey P. Holcomb, Mr. Linebarger and Mr. Goldring appeared for the defence.
At the conclusion of Tuesday's hearing the Court ordered that the three men described as servants be handed over to the Hupeh authorities, and that the compradore be released on shop security of $1,000 to be of good behaviour for two years.
A Charge of Wife-Murder At the Mixed Court on Thursday morning, before Magistrate Yui and Mr. Tenney (American Assessor), a student named Liu Zunsung was brought up on remand, charged with having on April 7 of this year murdered his wife, Liu Zung-may, by administering certain poisonous medicines.
Mr. P. M. Linebarger, who appeared in defence of the accused, said that this was a Chinese case from Nantao, and asked that it be dismissed and the warrant cancelled on the greed that the prosecution had tailed to appear. There was no presumption of guilt against the accused, who had come to the Court the previous day and surrendered himself to answer the charge. He was charged with the murder of his wife. This was a false charge and was brought against him at the instigation of his father-in-law, who thought to extort money from him. There was a doctor's certificate to the effect that death was due to natural
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.