332
and claimed a refund from the Consul-General. Since his return to Shanghai he was sentenced on May 30th., 1908, to a fine of $10 or four days hard labour, for assaulting and threatening the woman whose lover he had killed; and on January 30th., 1909, he was sentenced to $5 fine or three days hard labour for being drunk and disorderly. I understood in 1906 that Hyndrian's family were resident in Hongkong and I am told that they are still there. The only other cases of pauper convicts returned at the public cost are those of O. C. Vaughan and A. H. Guttierrez convicted on March 27th., 1907, of arson and sentenced to five years imprisonment in Hongkong with hard labour.
The Judge at the time of sentence asked the Hongkong Government to order their conduct to be reported on with a view to a remission and they were released after two years. The Shanghai Municipal Police have complained that two such criminals should have been returned without notice to them. Guttierrez is a native of Hongkong and his family reside there. Vaughan was born in Shanghai and has a sister living here. In such cases as this, return to Shanghai at the public cost might be proper, provided that notice were first given to the Shanghai Municipal Police.
In returning time-expired convicts to Shanghai the Hongkong Government may have been going on the analogy