Jadgment in Recent Charge of Assault Against Mr. Weatherbé
But Complainant's Statement of His Injuries Not Uphel Notice of Appeal Peking, June 25.
Judgment was given "by Mr.
Turner, Beitan Cov Peking, this afternoon in the case in which Mr. D'Arcy Weatherbe was charged with having assaulted fan Octroi official named Liu Kui that without some steps to, restrain the defendant from leaving the spot, j|his identity and nationality could subsequently have been ascertained, Tam satisfied that the complainant was entitled to employ reasonable Jeocreive measures to frustrate such Mr. Turner said: "In this case, whilst there is conflict of testimony in points of detail, the main facts appear beyond dispute and indicate that, as a result of the defendant's taking exception to a direction of the complainant to submit parcel to Octroi_examinati dispute arose, both parties. losing their tempers and finally employing degrees of force to effect their different purposes.
It appears clearly established that at the outset the complainant desirced the defendant to proceed to the Octroi office, that the latter refused to comply and endeavoured to drive off in his car, that the complainant thereupon attempted to prevent hint at first by barring defendant's access to the ear, and later, when this measure failed, by seizing the defendant forcibly' by the sleeve. Prom this point the incident develop:
into an open scuffle, during on the defendant's own admission, he struck the complainant.
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