Morgan Informed the Court that he had become addicted to. drugs some few weeks after his arrival in Shanghai in October, and that he desired to break "the habit. He stated that he believed, were be permitted to. continue the cure at the "Isolation hospital, he would be successful.
Judge Helmick remarked that it was unfortunate no institution dealing with such eases existed Shanghai as they did in the United States, and added that the Government could not afford to spend more money on the prisoner. He also Pointed out that he had been lenient fon a charge for which he might have decreed one year's imprisonment, and stated that he was sentence ing the prisoner to a month in gaol because he felt that Morgan was not yet ready to be freed, in view of his Addiction.
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