The Archive · 1936

Bus Driver Sentenced

As a sequel to the motor accident near the intersection of Bubbling Well Road and Chengtu Road, on the night of August, 27, in which a Chine gin, Miss Wong Ai-fun, lost her ie, 'Yue Tse-zee, a driver in the employ: of the China 'General Omnibus Ce was sentenced to six months' prisonment by the First' Special District Court, on Sept, 7, on a charge Of negligence causing death, Lee Tse-oh, a rickshaw puller, on a similar charge, was acquitted. The driver blamed the rickshaw man for having caused the -aecident, on. the ground that he attempted to draw breast of two other rickshaws front of him, A Kidnapping Suspect Handed Over The complainant in Mtr, W. A. Seldentaden.

Hut-Dwellers Face Riot Charge As a result of the hut-dwellers' lot In Yangtszepoo on September 2, {in which thirteen policemen, inclu Ing nine foreigners, received injuries of varying degrees, twelve Chinese, two of whom were women, appeared before the First Special District Court on Sept. 3 and were charged with committing "offences against public order.

The majority of the accused were coolies, others being ticket-collectors.

Jetty inspector, basket makers, ud hawkers. Eight of them were arrested during the trouble while four others were detained after being taken to hospital with injuries sustained in the riot.

The prosecution charged the prisoners with being concerned with approximately 400 other persons not yet arrested in assembling together on Chaoyang Road and employing violence and threats, causing injuries to officers of the SIN. Police who were acting in their official capacity. Sixteen medical certifeates and five Implicated by two other men previously arrested as being concerned in the kidnapping and the death of a Chinese boy In Chapel, Kau Yoong-zen, @ colle, was brought inst Special "District Court on Sept. 7. As the SIM, Polleo expressed no objection to the man being handed over, the Court ordered him to be sani to the Public Safely Bureau to be dealt with,

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