Mr. N. E. Lurton, U. S. Commissioner, on Tuesday delivered his decision im the case of the United States of America v. Leo Sau. The defendant wag charged in the Commiassioner's Court on Saturday with having concealed 350 rounds of ammunition on his Mr. Leonard G. Husar, U.S. District Attorney, pro-secured on a complaint submitted by the River Police. The decision reads as follows:
The testimony of the witnesses having been heard by me, it appears that the defendant was-arrested on board the str. President McKinley, and at the time of said arrest had 360 rounds of ammunition'on his person. The evidence submitted shows that the defendant had not come ashore with this ammunition on his person prior to his arrest. The law applicable to this case treats the defendant, who appears to be of Chinese birth, as being for all intents of purposes in the same status as if he were an American citizen, in
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