The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-12-14
50 Claims a Chinese Charged at
Hong Kong.
He WAS NATURALlzED HERE
Arraigned to Answer for Burglary.
Is Wealthy-Lawyer's Clerk.
Conspiracy Alleged.

The Chinese Overland Trade Report
contains an interesting account of an
extradition case before Commander
Hastings at the magistracy in Hong
kong. A pake who claims to be a natur-
| allied citizen of this country is the
principal.
1t appears that there is an extra
ditron ordinance in the treaty between
Her Majesty and the Emepror of Chi
| na, wherein it is agreed that if crimi-
mails, subjects of China, shall take ref
uge in Hongkong or on board the
British ships there. they shall upon due
requisition by the Chinese authorities,
be searched for, and, on proof of their
guilt, be delivered up. The crimes men,
toned in the first schedule of the
ordinance, includes that of burglary.
The present case was that of a Chi
naman whom the Chinese authorities
wished to get hold of, on the ground
that he was one of a band of robbers
who ransacked shop at Cha Tan KOk
in the Sun On district. on the 10th of
October. AS the accused belonged to
the progressive section of the commun-
ity, the case excited considerable in
terest among the Chinese reform party,
they claiming that the charge was
merely trumped up one and that it
had been formulated because that was
the only way in which the Chinese au-
thorities could secure the mans extra
dition. :.
The defendant was accused of hav-
ing committed the crime of burglary
within the Jurisdiction of China. The
first point to be made ON behalf of the
prosecution was to prove that defen-
dant was a Chinese subject. The sec
ond point would be to prove that he
was one of a band of men who COM
mitted the outrage alleged. With re-
gard to the first point,-that defendant
was Chinese subject-he, Mr.. Robin
son, for the prosecution, proposed to
call the sergeant interpreter who took
down what defendant said on the
charge being read over to him and aft
thereby to show that the man was born
in China, and that he had bought lat
terly Chinese title, and that he had
adopted the customs of China with re-
gard to marriage and the purchase Of
a son, and that he held lands in China.
AS to the charge of burglary, the
prosecution alleged that in the month
of October band of men entered the
village of Cha Tan Kok, some in chairs
and others on foot, and went to a shop
called the Tung Hing Tai shop and ap-
propriated the cash they found in the
shop and also most of the stock in
trade. He should call the general
manager to prove defendant was in the
silk shop when the men entered the
village, that they entered the shop
pointing revolvers, and that they rob-
bed the shop and went away.
Ho Ping Pui, sergeant Interpreter at
the Central Police Station, said he was
on duty when defendant was brought
in at half past on the 29th of Octo-
ber After being charged and duly
cautioned, he voluntarily made state
ment, which witness took down and OF
which the following is a translation:
The charge against me OF commit
ting the crime of burglary is not true.
I am wrongfully accused. I am rich.
To accuse me of the base crime is a
false accusation. I went to Honolulu
when I was seven years of age. L
! brought my family when I was thirty
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