The Archive · 1934

Second High Court

Rickshaw Case on Appeal

'Tseng Fa-chu and Ho Wu-san, who were each given three months' imprisonment by the First Special] District Court on August 30 on charge of intimidation and instigating! the rickshaw disturbances in the Settlement in August when many of the vehicles were damaged, had their sentences suspended for three yed fon Monday (Oct. 15) in the Second Branch Kiangsu High Court where they had appealed against the Lower Court's decision, The High Court dismissed the appeal of the two men, but suspended the sentences according to the Chinese Law.

The two appellants were charged in the Lower Court with three others, including a noted Chinese social" welfare worker connected with the Chinese YM.C.A, but the) latter three were found not guilty by the Lower Court after ma hearings during which two Chinese /ca members of the Council's Rickshaw Board gave their evidences.

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