Impossibility of Allegation posed by Bench "You must tell a possible story (of torture), not one that is utterly. impossible," said Mr. Whitamore to a coolie accused of Tareeny, at the Mixed Court on Monday morn ing, "for this is such a tale of absurdity that no person can believe it, I have heard these stories many times that I consulted a doctor to determine the verity, physically speaking, of the concoction. You ame into Court the day after the alleged torture and could not show 8 sign of injury, You are not telling the truth."
Accused was charged with having stolen some piece goods, valued at Tis, 181, from the Glen Ling str. Glentara on December 11. In out-
Tining the case to the Court, Det Insp. Douglas stated that accused had been arrested by the police in connexion with the theft last February of $50,000 worth of silk from the R.M.S, Empress of Russia, Certain witnesses did not appear, however, at the hearing, according to the officer, and he was let off. Accused was' bound over until to-morrow, at which time he hopes to bring a No, 1 wharf coolie to prove his statements, regarding the stolen package.
During the course of the hearing, aceitsed charged detective seconds with having tortured him, saying that they put rolls of paper inia hig nostrils and then lit them, and with having bound him and' then with hands behind his back suspended him from the wrists. He said that his legs were sore from the torture.
The Assessor:—That must have been very painful to have the paper burned in your nose, was not your fosh burned?—It was orly—the smoke, the flames did not burn me.
'The' Assessor—It must have been very painful to have been suspended by the hands, you had no pain then?—They bound my wrists firs: with cloth.
The Assessor.—How were you hung up, head up or down?—T was hung with head up, one man held me by the hair.
The Assessor:—I fail to see why, if you were strung up in this way, your shoulders were not dislocated, After they took me down they set my joints again, The Assessor been dislocated, it would have quired the services of a doctor and two months' rest to get you right, As [heard this story so many times T asked. a doctor, You ate no: speaking the truth, In the British Police Court, on Saturday, Mr. G. W. King, the Magistrate, committed Laharal Singh for trial on a charge of the! manslaughter of Ojager Singh. Bail was allowed in two sureties of $500, subject to the satisfaction of the police, Expuartna a point of law, in the British Police Court, on Monday Mr, G. W. King, the' Magistrate, said:—"You can be as drunk as you like inside a house. What har-pens: in real life is that you are taken up and gently put into the street and then you are charged with being drunk and disorderly in the street."
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