SUPREME COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3795, 23 April 1875, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

(CRIMINAL SESSION^ Thursday, April 22. (Before his Honor Chief Justice PrendtAi'gaat.j STEALING FROM A DWELLING-HOUSE, Ah Toi was indicted for having stolen from the house of Ching Chee at Caversham, on January 4, a silver watch of the value of L 8 10s, the property of Ching Chee. Mr Barton, in addressing the jury for the defence,' characterised the case as one essentially got up by Chinese and the result of jealousy on the part of the prosecutor. The following witnesses were examined: - Esther _ Falconer, who deposed that she had lived with the prosecutor for three years, and left him in the early part of January, and now lived with her two children in Stafford street, Ching Chee was always jealous of the prisoner—Moy Ping deposed that Ching Chee promised to give him L2O not to act as interpreter for Mr Chapman.— Nee Wan deposed that the witness Johnson conversed with him outside the Supieme Court on Thursday as follows “If I must go in the box against the prisoner, he will not get off. If I don’t go in the box, he will get off.” —James M‘lndoe had known the prisoner, who was his tenant for three years, and always found him strictly honest in every transaction that brought them together. The jury, after an absence of five minutes, brought in a verdict of “ Not gnilty.”