[police station was then called. said that accused had been in the employ of the police until November 29 and that he had been formerly, attached to the C. T. D.
Witness arrested accused at 7.30 pin, on December 18 at the Yih Ping Shang Hotel. Accused asked witness at the station if it would Ihelp his case if ho would disclose who the Chinese were. Bladon said Bhat he could take witness to the house where the man who got hint into the case was living. The following morning they went to 1 Sukong Road and there arrested Tsang, whose case was now pending [before the Provistonal Court, On eross-examination witness said that he did not know that a mari named Maximoff in Harbin had engaged Bladon, He only knew, that accused had the tickets. Neither did he know that accused went to Bubbling Well _polies station the morning after the alleged occurrence after heaving that his name was linked with the trouble, Bladon said that while there he talied to Sets. Farrell, Butcher and Cummings.
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The -casd again came before Judge Peter Grain and a jury Wednesday im H, M, Supreme Court. The jury was composed of Messrs. A. R, Jones, H. R, Malcolm, H. Hutchison, E, B, Clarke and GH. Rendall, Of." H. Lipson Ward, the acting Crown Advocate, prosecuted, while Mr, Tycho Wing Det-Inspr. Yorke, recalled, said hho had searched the Bubbling Well Police Station record, but could find no trace of any call concerning the accused after November 16. All members of the force on joining had to have Chinese lessons. and {there were monthly examinations The most intelligent men from the uniformed branch were selected. for the Criminal Investigation Department, Accused after serving 18 mantis ought to have some know" ledge of Chinese, drew 8 bonus fee proficiency" in Chinese. The police Jeamt the Shanghai dialect. He thought the conversations mentioned in this case must have been in some local dialect. It might have been Ningpo, but a man understanding Shanghai would understand some Ningpo.
Re-examined—Eighty por cent, of the men drew the first language onus within twelve months. Any policeman would know that an offence committed in the Hongkew Dintriet_ was not the concern of Bubbling Well Station, This concluded the ease for the prosecution, Prisoner, on oath, said that ho could not' pick up the Chinese language when he was in the Police, About December G last year, soon after he left the Police, he Accidentally met a Chinese whose name he understood was Tsang Lie ong, and whom he had known before. "He told witness ho was a River Police detective and he had fa card to that effect. Ho had a house and seemed respectable.
Tsang told witness ho know a well-to-do Chinese living im Haining Road, who wanted some opium transferred to the French Concession, Witness, said the matter did not interest him and he would have nothing to do with it, On December 15 witness again met Tsang in Jukong Road. They spoke in pidgin E lish. Five other Chinese wore present and eventually Chinese woman was brought in for better interpretation, Witness again was asked to assist in moving the opium but again refused, saying he had prospects of a good job and had drawn substantial advances of pay.
He was told the opium would he moved the next day and he said that even if he did go he would do nothing without a direct understanding with the principal, Witness admitted that if he safely could do 'a little deal in opium it would not weigh on his conscience, but demanding money with menaces was a different thing.
He turned up the next day an hour late. There then was a sixth man present. He was wearing }what had been called a "devil-make" but it was only an ordinary Balaclava leap. He was described as. a servant and soked through the
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