The Archive · 1937

Smoking of Heroin

OFF MILLER' ROAD

Alleged Spaniard Is Arrested, with Two Chinese An alleged Spaniard was Bought with two Chinese to the First Special District Court yesterday and charged vith smoking heroin in' Jue ong Li, Miller Road, at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday. Emilio Cruz, aged 30, the alleged Spaniard, questioned' about his nationality first told the Judge that he was a Filipino, but later said he was a Spaniard." The two Chinese prisoners were Loh Kyuin-tsong and Tseu Kyen-kyung, both' unemployed.

Prosecuting, Mr. T. S. Lea, instant Municipal Advocate, told the Court that at 5.30 pin, on Tuesday, a J.P.C. on duty on Fearon Road saw: a suspicious-looking man who, on emg the constable, rose from his chair and Left. The constable followed him and, on entering the: Jue Kong Li alleyway, saw the three accused were lying on a piece of waste ground, smoking heroin. He had them placed under arrest.

Cruz, questioned by the Judge, admitted "having smoked heroin sometimes, but said he had cultivated habit. On the day in question, he said, he went to deliver a letter tra friend, but did not smoke herdin) The two Chinese denied the charge.

The Judge remanded the case till to-morrow,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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