The fuss was that the judge had] ordered the release of the prisonfers on his own responsibility. T ease had not gone beyond a preliminary hearing. No evidence had been taker wrk insinuations Jeame to one's ears of bribery. It fs said that not only did the judg receive a money payment to mal up for long arrears of salary; he had also extracted a promise of a fat job when Hankow came to Peking." Anyhow, he disappeared ini-mediately after his announcement of the acquittal. He feared either! that his sin would find him out or that Chang Tso-lin, like Yuan Shih-kai, would show him what can be done in modern China to judges who show too keen a regard for the law.
Neither he nor his prisoners havel left a trade of their whereabouts. the deception, Chang] Tso-lin issued an instruction to the Cabinet to dismiss Shen Chia-yi, Jehief Justice of the High Court. What "his responsibility is, is not known, though one rather doubts that he knew much more about the case than Chang Tso-lin himself, but anger in high "places knows' n9 bounds, and the innocent must} suffer if the guilty cannot be found. Chang Tso-lin's rage was further revealed in the holding up of several decrees that are the new administration's contribution. to the mo-
Jdernization of China's, codes. One is body of regulations -governing ithe training of judges. Another!
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