The Archive · 1928

AN. APPEAL, WHICH FAILED

'The quietness of the' Provisional Court was broken on Monday after-chen screams and wails, em-nating from the upper floor where the Appellate Division is situated, penetrated to all corners and resulted-in a wild scramble by all to ascertain the cause. Inspectors, sub-inspectors, sergeants, Sikh constables, detectives, newspaper ro-porters, lawyers' and all not engaged in the business of the afternoon, made a bee line for the stair-way'leading to the upper floor. Faces soon appeared at all windows the various Court buildings in swer to the cries and shouts of hysterical women, Tt appears that the Appellate Division had just sentenced three Chinese to 15 years' imprisonment on charges of armed kidnapping. One of the men sentenced had xp: pealed against the decision of

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