Judgment was given by Judge Liang (with whom sat Mr.
Whitamore) in the ease in which Mra, Edonia P, Deck, wife of an American sailor, of 635A East Yuhang Road, and Joseph Rondni off, her cousin, were charged being in possession of a large quanity of silverware and other household property alleged to have eon stolen from the Customs bond-or down last June and from Mareo!'s. The woman was further charged with being in possession of fa revolver without having obtaivied a Hicones. The Judge found Mrs. Deck guilty and sentenced her to 20 months! imprisonment and Rondnikoff was discharged.
Alfred Lopes, a Mexican, who appeared before the American Court on Monday but was held to be not under jurisdiction, was charged be. fore Jude Chou, on Tuesday morn ing, with being drunk and disorderly in Chapoo Road on March 27. He was fined $5 or three days' imprisonment as an alternative.
Wirawsky, Czecho-Stovak, who produced papers showing that he had served in the British Army during the War, was cautioned vy Judge Chou with bring drunk and disorderly in Quinsan Gardens on Sunday afternoon, The appeal by the police against 'a Seittunee of seven months imposed on a colic who was nvieted on charges of the larceny of a bangle, assaulting a constable and returning from expulsion was upheld in the Appellate Division by Judges Ziar (presiding), Chin and Tsan and Me Shimizu (Senior Consul's Deputy), who reversed the division of th: Court of First Instance and imposed 'a Sentence of ton years' imprison ment, with deprivation of civil ights, for life It will be. remem-ered that it was in connection with this case that Mr, If, E, Stevens very strong. protest, wherein "he pointed out that, since 1923, accused had been convicted nine times for theft and three, times for offences of a related category, The death sentence was confirmed Judge Tsing and Mr. Whitamore the case of two men who sere ordered to pay the extreme penalty for armed kidnapping. Tt will be recalled that the sentence had been referred to the Nanking Government for confirmation bat it was returned with an order that the ease should be retried, resulting in a protest by the "Senfor Consul's A cook was charged before Judge Chou and Mr. Shimizu with unlawful possession of a 38 calibre automatic pistol and nine rounds of ammuni Det. 1. Schmidt said that when the 1 was found on accused at the North Szechuen Road Bridge on Saturday, the cartridge that was in the breech showed that
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