Defendant then told his. story. He had been employed by the Kiangnan Dock & Engineering Ca. for 20 years and was superintendent of the firm. There had been some trouble over an itemized statement for the captain Norwegian ship and prosecute d failed to prepare it at the time choy wished it and on the next morning when defendant—asked him to give him 22 particulars of a single statement (it merely required: copying), plaintiff did not do it, but wandered off into the secretary's office, but before doing had argued with the officer and acted ina nasty wi Defendant rebuked him. About 15 minutes later he saw prosecutor there and gave him a shove with his left into the outer office. When he (defendant) came out there, Yang rushed at him with lowered head and clenched fists. Defendant repeated the manceuvre and as he neared—witness his (prosecutor's) glasses fell off and were knocked away as he tried to catch then: "When he came at me the third time, T struck him,' said My, Mauchan, ""while on the fourth ¢ the other Chinese stopped him Mr. Newman—Did you try to prevent the other witnesses from coming into court this morning? No, T saw the requests sent by Mr. Char (Yang's solicitor) and said that they" must come In dismissing the charges, his Worship stated that there had been enough time to subpoena witnesses for Yang and_ overruled "Mr. Char's request for an adjournment.
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