Needless to say all the zecused denied the charges and the case was not strengthened for the police by their several admissions that in the excitement of the moment they neglected to make sure that cor-tain of their captives were the persons in possession of the fiery toned documents.
After the decision had been ans nounced a vigorous p the handing over of the prisoners was made by Mr. Stevens in which he questioned the legality of the Court's a He said, "It would appear that the learned Judge has erred in ordering these prisoners to be hand. ed over to a man alleging himself to be a detective in the employ of the Garrison Commander. These accused were not arrested at the instance of the local military. The were taken into custody by tha in the Settlement, and in the act of committing or at: tempting to commit the offence with which they are charged.
"The Shanghai Provisional Court alone has juri over the crimes committed in the International Settlement and the court's machinery is adequate to the trial and disposition of all such cases. There is no authority for extradite ing offenders in the Settlement for trial by an extra-Settlement Court, that is without jurisdiction.
if a despatch warrant for extra-Gition is to be favourably entertained by this Court, it should be in proper form and come from competent Chinese judicial authority.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.