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(From Our Scottish Correspondent) - EDINBURON, March 28. The latest addition to the "Notable Scottish Trials" sorios, edited by Willian Roughead, deals with the case of Jossia M'Lachlan, & cause celebre, it drosled
MITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA intenso excitement; up to the pressut, day
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it is a subject of legal questioning; nud a sumniary of ita incidents will be interesting to Scots in Hanglong and the Far East Tobo have heard it canvassed in their youth
A Late on the night of the ith or early on the morning of the 6th of July, 1862, n SOLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA murder was committed in the house of SIMA, OCHI, MUTABE, HOJO, John Fleming, accountant, Sandyford KANADA, NAMAZUTA, SAVYO, Place, Glasgow. The victim was a sorvant SHINNEW and KAMIYAMADA named Jossio M'Pherson, and the only Collorios.
COAL DEPARTMENT. private conversation.
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other person living in the house that night was James Fleming, E7 years of ago, thu father of John Fleming. Suspicion foll
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on the old man at first, and he was appro- | SATURDAY, April 22nd. honded, "but after a few days' detention ba
was liberated. Moantime a friend of the murdered woman, Jessie MIstoskor
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M-Lachlan, had been taken into custody.MON. & TUES., April 24th and 20th † and was committed for trial on charges of murder and theft. She pleaded not guilty. and as a special defence pleaded that the murder was committed by James Fleming.. Lord Deaa presided at the trial, which WEDNESDAY, April 26th |began on 17th Sept. aud" contiäved for
A WALTZ DREAM four days, the result boing-a"unanimous ! verdict of guilty on both charges, Before sentence::was; pronounood-the- prisoner, through her counsel (Mr Rutherford Clark, afterwards Lord Rutherfur) Clark) offered baaritten statement in which the charged old Fleming with the murder; and whild- [admitting being herself prosent, denied
sho ateraards co-operated with the old AGENT and GENERAL IMPOR participation in the deed, and stated that
man in endeavouring to conceal the crime. TER will henceforth be conducted inder Lord Dous characterised what had been the name of 'DOUGLAS GRAHAM & read as a tireus of wicked falsehoods. The Co. instead of Douglas Graham as public wind, however, was not satisfied. formurly""
In response to demanda for further inquiry,: Mr George. Young (Lord Young) was ap- pointed Crown Commissioner to make fur ther investigations, with the result that on 8th November 1882 Jessie M'Lachlan was 816 conditionally-pardoned, and she was sent. unced to "punal servitude for the torm of her natural life." "Fifteen years afterwards sho was released, and emigrated to America, where she died on New Year's Day 1890.
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It need only be sided that the story of the crise is well told in this volume of the
Notable Scottish Trials.
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THE ANNUAL DINNER will be held Wo recently published a telegram from
r., at the HosGrose HOTEL Mainbers our Shanghai correspondent, stating that intending to be present should notify the the charge of conspiracy to defraud the Undersigned, stating at the same time the Kochien Transportation and Towboat Co,number of the guests they propose to ask. Ltd., against Frederick Griffin, which come, before Mr G. W. King, H. B. M's. Police Magistrito, was eventually withdrawn.
Papers now to hand give some details of the closing proceedíuga.
Mr Montagu Harris prosecuted and. Mr Griffin was defended by Mr E. W. Godfrey.
Two witness, one a German and the other a Chinese, were called by the pro- sccution but they refused to give evidence.
Mr Godirey--I may say at this stage that the books, vouchers, and accounts of the Company have been at the free disposal of the prosecution and anybody connected with them for the past month or more. No attempt has been made to look into these secounts in order to gather that evidence which ought to have been brought to this Court in support of any such chazgo. --Me- -CHINA-TRADERS INSURANCE CO. Harris came here and he made this charge
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in most emphatic terms, and be had no evidence whatever to support it.. I want to say this further. Even if the evidence ATOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the of Petar Bahr and Teb Foo could have been IS GIVERY given in this Court, even if they had been YEARLY MEETING of the Company willing to give that evidence, Mr Harris
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His Worship-It is a pretty serious thing
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His Worship-You have no right to bring the Crown Advocate into in Hain ant conducting the prosecution. You have no right to straduco his name,
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