Yang was handed over to. the immediately the French Prosecuting for the Municipal Police, Mr. Paul Y. Ru, told the Court that the prisoner' had been handed over to the Settlement authorities because be was. wanted connection with other, bomb outrages committed in the Settlement The. accused, counsel "stated, with
Park Road, They had in' their tend ai nct, ved. 217 possession four hand grenades obfained when they served. as volunteers. in the resent. Sino-Japanese hostilities. "On duly 28, Teal Vu-tsu Sent a letter to the Cotton Cloth Merchants Association,—Shanse Road, warning them against dealing in IRpanese goods." The letter was necompanied by a bomb placed in a iseult can, The following. ™morning, about 740 o'clock, the accused
the, premises of the Yung Chang Trai Yates threw a bomb into Coat" Store, 729-781 Sinza. Road. The. bomb exploded and injured a shop assistant. Prior to. the outrage, the accused and Tsai hed'sent a ietier of warning to the coal Store. Tsai bad absconded at the time of accused's arrest.
Continuing, counsel stated that inquiries by" police elicited the fact that the Yung Chang Coal Store was responsible for the arrest, in Tanary last of, picket Torper' AntiJapaneat "Association. [The police believed that the accused and His friend had thidwn the boil {nto the Yung" Chang Coal. Store jas 4 reprisal." The police charged the accused with attempted murder inasmuch asa shop assistant of! the complainant store was neatly' Killed in the outrage of July 29. representative of the Yung Chang Detectives having corroborated, a
Coal Store told the Court that on the morning of the bomb outrage, three employees were in "the store, but Jonly one of them was wounded in the explosion. Who had thrown the bomb! was unknown, Questioned by the Court, the accused denied being responsible for the bomb outrage at Yung Chang. Coal Store, saying that the bomb iwas hurled by his friend who had absconded. The accused, however, Jadmitted having previous' knowledge of the affair and said that, shortly after the outrage, he visited the scene of explosion. The accused further admitted that it was he who had delivered the bomb to the Cotton Cloth Merchants Association, Dut said that his intention was not to hurt anybody, but to warn the merchants against dealing in Japan-jose goods, Accased declared that he and his friend had both served as. volun-the recent Sino-Japanese near Shanghai and it was at that time that they ha come into possession of the four hand grenades. After returning home from the front, accused said, he delivered one of his hand gre fades to the Cotton Cloth Merchants Association and threw the other into the Moh Chang Cotton Cloth Shop off Boulevard des Deux Republiques on August 5. The bomb which exploded at. Yung Chang Coal Store belonged fo his friend.
When the hearing of the case was Jopened on Aug. 15, an array of Chinese lawyers retained for defence asked for the prisoner's restated that and business concerns were prepared to guarantee the accused' Ye-appearance before the Court at the next hearing.
Mr. K. S, Kum, acting Municipal Advocate, who, with Mr. Paul Ru, Assistant 'Municipal "Advocate, conducted the prosecution, opposed the request for bail and, when his protest was not upheld by the Sudge, Mr. Kum stated that would' fle an appeal with the Sec-and Branch Kiangsu High Court against the ruling. The Judge subsequently ordered a further adjournment of the case and granted the defence counsel's request for security for the accused, the "Blood and Soul Corps for the Extermination of Traitors," He declared that he threw the bomb unto the shop to warn the proprietor not to deal in Japanese goods, He id he had served as a. volunteer Sino-Japanese hostilities. A. search was made of his home and another bomb was discovered, Prisoner was charged with ereating a disturbance. and wilfully causing damage. When the case was heard before the French Concession court last week, a lengthy argument in defence of the prisoner the prisoner's act was inspired by, a sense of patriotism, that he had intention of hurting anybody, and that he was a boy of only 16 years eld, who, according to law, should be exempt from punishment even if he had been found guilty by the court.
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