THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 19, 1940
FIFTEEN MONTHS' SENTENCE FOR SEDITIOUS INTENT
FOUND GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES, Chanan Singh was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment by the Chief Justice at the Criminal Sessions this morning.
He was charged with (a) making lice Station at 10.15 a.m. and argued -preparations to do an act with sedi-that he could not have been on board
tious intention, (b) possession of a as alleged. seditious publication (c) possession of 'The crown relied on the evidence of an article with a view to making an the two Chinese Police officers and endeavour to influence public opinion of Senior Revenue officer Grimmitt in a manner likely to be prejudicial to and submitted that proof of guilty defence and (d) possession of a docu-knowledge was shown by the struggle ment inciting to disaffection.
Mr. J. P. Murphy, assistant Crown Counsel, assisted by Sergeant Fowlie, was for the Crown, and the jury was composed of Messrs. A. A. Pereira (foreman), J. H. Simmonds, B. Chen,
G.
A. Gutterres, Ling Ping-pun, Cheung Chik-kwan and Fung Ching-
yau.
Mr. Murphy said that the four counts all concerned the same facts.
was.
to
with the police officers, his attempt to get rid of them and by his state- ment to the Police when asked explain the papers. His reply was that he had nothing to say and any- thing he had to say would be said in the Police Court.
Concluding Mr. Murphy asked the jury to appreciate the dangers of violent anti-British propaganda par- ticularly at the present time.
described
Lai Kwong, Chinese Police Sergeant,
the said that he was on duty, at
1 Canton Wharf on June 1. He saw uniform board the defendant in Fatshan.
Events followed as
by Crown Counsel.
Cross-examined by accused, wit- ness said that he did not see accused talk to anybody on the ship. He had been instructed to arrest accused if he carried a parcel. He did not ar- rest, accused before, on instructions.
Accused at the time of the acts al- leged was a police officer. On June 1, at about 10.25 a.m., he was seen to go aboard the Fatshan at its Wharf at Connaught Road Central and stay there for about 10 minutes. He was seen to come ashore with a bundle of papers. He was followed by a police sergeant in plain clothes and when near Rumsey Street was approached by the Sergeant who told him who he This sergeant had seen the ac- cused go on the wharf and on the steamer. There was a struggle and accused threw away the parcel he had had in his hand. A police constable
S.R.O. Grimmitt said that at about also on plain clothes duty rendered as- sistance. The parcel was found 10.30 am. he was in Connaught Road contain 86 pamphlets of a seditious na central. He heard police whistles and constable struggling ture. The Crown contended that ac- saw an Indian cused must be assumed to have in- with two Chinese. He thought the tended to distribute the documents, constable was in trouble. He'
parcel. He Mr. Murphy then went on to define accused throw away a
go. to also saw a police constable of a seditious publication as being such a seditious nature as to cause dis-pick it up, content and dissatisfaction among His Majesty's forces or inhabitants of the Colony.
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Accused denied that. he ever went on board, ever had the papers in his hands and alleged that the charges were the result of a plot. He relied on the fact that he left Central Po-
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