SUPREME COURT
A CHINAMAN , CHARGED WITS MURDER..,,;;
[BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. | Wellmqton, last night. The_ Supreme Court was occupied all day heurjng a charge of murder preferred against Tong Chong and his wife, an Eogliah woman.
The body of their jrifant child,' bearing marks of violence was'found wrapped in a hag on the beach at E?i:»', Bay, in J.anuary last,
The jury retired at 7,30, and after an hour's deliberation acquitted the acouaed of tbg more serious charge, and entered up a verdict of "Concealment of birth."
The Chief Justice sentenced the prisoners to two years' imprisonment each, but reserved the question of corpus delicti for the Appeal Court,' and ordered that execution should be arrested until that Court had given its decision,. '"
A peculiar point arose, after the verdiot was Riven, it being ascertained that none of tho evidence had been interpreted to the male prisoner, His Honor said, if anything, it was only a mistrial, but ha was not prepared at present to Bay what course should. b& adopted,
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 6050, 14 April 1888, Page 2
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170SUPREME COURT Thames Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 6050, 14 April 1888, Page 2
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