Punished for Attending Political ary 1, 1927, fat the date of 7 Meetings cent. per annum after date unt il Further agree to hand you my de-The caves of 17 students arrested in the Pootoo Road district on Doce mand note for. the $2,121.78, ember 17, whilst some of them were auldressing workers and others either distributed incendiary pamph= which Jets or had them in their possession, obligation T agree to. assume in full.
In the event that T make all of the came to a conclusion at the Mixed shove. mentioned payments, total Court on Monday morning: before ing including interest, "on the Messrs, Nagaoka and Loh. The bail they fall due, You are to surren: of five, $90, was ordered forfeited me my note in the amount of when they did not appear, while Sea rue siege, further payments] of the others, four were fined $5, Hy notes aggregating $7,850.00, Your very. true (Sed) LW, Movs, Accented: eight $3 and. on was. dismissed, Maitland prosecuted, [while Me. ¥. B. Giang appeared for the defence, Stavan, Pret appears from the evidence that after the execution of this contract between the parties, ind after the defendant had the first two Payments therein provided, in the aggregate to the sum of $2,600.00, the defendant in the latter part of December, 1024, called at the office of the plainti' in the city of Chicagy, in the state of Mi is, and there had some conversation with one H. B. Staver, its President, rel to a settle: ment and compromise of defendant's indebtedness to the plaintiff under this contract. At that time he defendant submitted to the plainti it by way of compromise an offer of $2,000.00 which President Staver, although expressing doubt as to its acceptance, agreed to submit to his Board of Directors. Defendant In outlining, the case for the prosecution, Mr. Maitland intimate that accused were charged under three counts, to wit, that they, as students, were criminally guilty of attending political meetings, and, that: they were members of 4 pol tical ady, and, lastly, that they failed to notify' the police of the public meetin As they gave their decision, the Court stated that the students had been found guilty on the first charge, under Special Police Laws, which prohibited students from being attendance at_politieal Det-Sergt. Grubb, in gi ence, stated that, after their, arrest, took statements from all. the students at Pootoo Road station. In the main they asserted that they Were from three universities and had been given the pamphlets by. the Shanghai Students' Union for distribution, claims that during the course of As he was being: questioned by the that conversation President Staver Magistrate, one of the students sai sormested that instead of paying "I do not' believe what is in' the the $750.00 which was to fall due 1925, provided in" said contract, that defendant could settle for the whole of the' balance due in the futare case the offer of compromise accepted. At this time defend ai int T am an art student at ity.
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