Pcisreed pth erotiating 'a sale of arms was continued before Judge 'W. King in H, BIN, Police Court Saturday morning, accused being Sentenced "to three months bacd labour following introduction of police evidence First witness for the police was P.C.C, 143 who told that on the afternoon of March 22, he ha overheard a conversation on Garden Bridge between accused regarding the sale of pistols. He had asked accused how many pistols could supply, and accused had said three, Arrangements had been made to go to the Hongkew Hotel, room 8, at 5 p.m. where accused would bring the arms, At this point in the evidence, the pistol taken from accused on the night of his arrest was shown the court.
Tt was believed to have been made locally after a German pattern. Accused had told the Chinese detective that this was only a sample and that he could supply three. At the hongkew Hotel, witness stated that hho had taken the pistol to another room where Det. Sgt, Williamson ter returned arrested accused. story, which Judge King said he wai afraid did not hold water, was that the pistol had been given him by an ex-Customs officer who had left Shanghai, Accused denied that he had been trying to goll the pistol, and in answer to Sgt. 'Williamson's testimony that when the pistol had been found on him at the hotel' and the question put "What's this"? accused had said am selling it to him and he is buying Be, sora anid be aid me cee
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