Bare Singh claimed "$120 from alia, Singh, who he alleged had igned a promissory note which he produced in Court. Judge P. Grant Jones" adjourned the case for a week until the defendant "could produce a witness, because defend-fant said at the time he signed the note he wan Toad, fora. Singh on being called into the box to give evidence, said the dant Was not mad' when he had signed the note. He "thought that his madness'was probably due to an over-indulgence of samshu.
Judge Grant Jones asked it the defendant could produce in a week 4 letter from the Gurdwara, the Sikh Temp Jo, testifying to his' men- bac tal iso of he could and the case was for "Defendant aid "at Me leaving school in the Federated Malay States, coming to Bhanghai about' eighteen, months go. Atle wane wan of fair ea
Ing'were ponibly not'ns good te ut he ab he Saal Bon hala light hope to have had." He had inthe Mal "and none. of his post for a great deal of responsi-Since he had been in Shang "There wi depositions one matter to which attention must, be: drawn, that the prisoner refused to. undergo medical examination. While fon remand he had subsequently, undergone examination, and as the doctor was not in court, it had been arranged for his certificate The prisoner was. ch with produced, because in the lower court
more serious offence which, the charges came t9 be trai not. upheld the magistrate, He could assure the result of the test sioner could not possibly have eon convicted on that charge Counsel submitted that the fact that the charges extended over a. period of four months was. signif. meant in the case of the elder girl. Though there could be no legal con: sent, there might have been prac-ticul consent, and it was just sible this man was not the only one, Lordship would recall that, counsel appeared a short time ago in a ease in which sentence of five ears? imprisonment passed, 8 mathe submitted that was a much more serious case. Punishment must be severe to act as a deterrent to others, but it was very sad to see 'a man of Williams's education in his, Position. He thought a very severe Dunishment might not be necessary, for he had learnt his lesson.
Passing sentence after the elder girl had been brought into court for a moment at his request, Judi Grant Jones said: "You have plea ed guilty to a. most abominable offence, and your counsel has said for you all that is to be said in ease like this, Even in the terri crime of murder there is of in found, but in a crime such Team find no palliation.
sre does appear to be some saspicjon—we will say no more than' that—that you are not the only one, but T have taken that into consideration, If I had thought that you Were the only one, if I were sure you had started these children on his path, 1 would ive you the ful penalty which the Taw allows, that imprisonment for two years with hard labour."
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