For distributing connection with the strike of sil hongs a shop assistant was fin $5 Judge Chou, and by pamphlets seized were ordered to be confiscated. Accused was caught in the act at 9.90 am, on August 9 i Fokien Read. oldier and an unemployed Chinese who were charged with the attempted extortion of $500 between July 7 and July 10 from a compatriot at Woosung and further with the kidnapping of the a: m-. plainant's son, and who at the first ig were ordered to be handed 10 the civil authorities on the implicit understanding that after trial, loth were to be handed over again to the Provisional Court stand their trial on the charge of extortion, appeared before Judze Koh and Mr. Van den Berg. The civil authorities refused to hear th: ease, and so the Court ordered that Doth accused were to be handed over to the Garrison Commissioner for trial on the same understanding a that mentioned previously Matvei: Kochkin, Russian of 127
Range Road, charged with assault ing L. fmas'at 10 p.m, on July 17 was fined by Judge Hsiung, This advertisement 1iTeased Uy the Betioh- America Pebacow Co_TCHT An) Lid An inquest was conducted at the Public Mortuary by Judge Vu and Dr. Ramondino on the body ofa Chinese employee of the Tramways who died in hospital at 3.15 a.m. on August 9.
Sub-Inspr, Ockwell said that the: deceased had been thrown from the top of a tram car in the sheds at the Hart Road terminus affec receiving an electri shock. Ife was removed to hospital where he later died. From inquiries made it appeared that deceased was employed oiling the trolley on the top of the fear inside the shed and that whoa hho stood up his head came in contact with the live overhead wire:
Mr, Tait said that he was in charge of the rolling Stock. When anyone was oiling the trolley it must be off the live wire and then there would be no current passing throug Av. Muiv said that the manage would consider the matter of compensation.
'A verdict was returned that death was due to pure accident. "The (Continued on Pa
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