'The standing committee of the Japanese' Residents" "Assocation met discuss the sequltal Cooke and Hunt on a charge of fmansiaughter of Kisaltu Sasaki and Cooke on 8. charge. of causing Soaliy harm to Onishi Consular and "The "proceedings at the British
tewas decided. to hold a full meet= Ing' of the Association at tve o'clock Monday" evening to decide on its siuiude and: to pass" resolution hich wil be handed to the Japanese fand British embassies, The resolue tu, ie forecast wih ake he Brit, {sh embaagy for a "sincere solution."
'The Japanese community, accord Ing to well-informed sources, 8 very diseased "with the. verdicts. ven by the Brilish' Court, and. tempers reported to be sing.
Before Cooke was acquitted of the assault charge to-day, we mare Witnesses "for the defence. gave evie ence. "Major \D. Chesney, Com= mandant of the British. Embassy Sumours hae ritih, soliete were night of, May "21, "unoMel stined that he. firet heard
suspected of having been involved. disturbances on the night of May 20.
Doctor's Evi RSS e Se on on The following morning, all the men late pass on May 20and military police were taken to a private room End asked to write a full account of Set ae cne the events on May. 26—what they where "they were, and. what dia."All the tate piss men and the miliary police were examined medically or Signs of having been in ier car att mi Kotte by me a The case for Fanta ai, Star a Major W. G. Shakespeare, medieat amicer of the Guard, fed Cooke on May 28, inns of hie hands having struele Chows recently. He had heard the evidence concerning "Onishi, and thought that, It Cooke had inflicted these wounds, there would. be signs on his hands. If the Blow were made With knuckteduster, most probably Onishi's frontal sinus would have been smashed in, Counsel for the defence, atr. P.H.B. Kent, of Tientsin, addressed the court at length on behalf Cooke, pointing apt that there were many conflicting points. inthe ecution's evidence in the case of the establishment known as "Bar No, 27," where Cooke was alleged 10 have assaulted Onishi, Three witnesses, he said, had given three different times concerning the alleged arrival of Cooke and Hunt—one at 1130 pin, another at 1145 pam, and the third at 1154 pin, all three stating that they had looked at a clock or watches. They could not all have been right, Someone must have been wrong.
One girl from the same bar had eclated that Cooke and Hunt only came together once: that was on May 26, whereas another girl of the same bar had declared that they frequently came together to the bar.
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