'A sentence of two months imprison. ment-with hard labour was imposed by Mr. C. H. Haines, Registrar, in
Harnam Singh, formerly employed Police' Court on Friday' on fas a warder at! the Ward Road Jail, {or assault on Sundar Singh, a warder at the jail, December 1, Mr. [appeared for the complainant, and Mr. W. A, Ivanow for the defendant, Ouitining the facts of the case, Livingstone said the complainant w proceeding to the jail on the att hoon of December 18, and as he was walking along Chusan Road the cused came up behind him and asked him where he was going. Accused then struck him on the face with his lenched fist, and also. struck him with a leather baton. The assault was witnessed by an Tatian who was proceeding along Chusan Rod in a Hiekshaw, Me went to the assist of the complainant, put im in his Fickshaw and sent him to the police hospital in Ward Road, He remained in the hospital from December 18 until December 27.
Evidence was given by Dr. Hsin Haih-tse, of the Police Hospital at Ward Road, who attended the complainant, Sunder Singh, the complainant, Behram Soirak Khambata, Senior warder in charge of the Chinese and Indians at the Ward Road Jail, Mr, Demetrius Negirs, an Italian, who witnessed the incident, and Dr. Raymond Conway Riego, who gave evidence of the defendant having been in his office at the time when he was supposed to have been at the scene of the Incident.
Giving judgment, Mr, Haines said that the defence could not disprove the evidence brought by the complain ant by bringing a doctor to give evidence of defendant having been in his office at the time, The only con-lusian he could come to was that there was some contusion about the
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