Eight on Trial: Four Identified:
To Be Executed: Guilt Presumable four were charged, counsel went on, provided for the death penalty and he demanded that it should be inflicted in the case of these men. As to the remaining four, they should be handed over to the Chinese authorities. These men admitted that they were without means and one had confessed that hho was a robber.
Four Identified Mew to Be Executed The judgment. stated that Whereas as a result of the inquiry Wang Pei-dsh, Wang Fok, Zeng Mei and "Fio Sai have been found guilty of piracy on the high seas on board the str. Tungchow, crime comes within the provisions of Article 374 of the Chinese Proional Criminal Code; Notwithstanding their denials the Court, on the conclusive € idence deduced for the prosecution, and confronted by the formal depositions of the witnesses, cannot have the least doubt as to their culp-
Guilt Presumable But Not Proven Whereas in this affair it mest] he presumed that Ling Ching, Zeng ug, Wang Tie and Tsang were equally guilty in the a doubt exists at the same time in their favour. But jeonsidering everything there—is jgcound to regard the latter as ferticular suspects, whose future movements call for surveillance; After due deliberation, the Court, therefore, be executed, and pronounces. that! Ling Ching, Zeng Zeng-tsang, Wang] Tie and "Tsang Gno-tsang_—be expelled from the Concession perpetuity,
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