Mr. Goldring asked that the case should be adjourned and requested the Court to make an order that acevsed be detained in the Amoy Road Gaol and that the case should come on at the earliest possible opportunity.
Dr. Wilhelm said that he also! would like an adjournment as he had only been instructed to appear earlier in the morning and had no time to go into the case. He would present his power: of attorney at the next hearing.
Accused was then taken away and! he twill be detained in the Amoy Road Gaol until the next hearing.
This is the first.time that a foreigner has hech brought before a Chinese court in Shanghai on a capital charge.
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