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rash  in  this  matter  than  you  were  justified  in  being.  The  case
of  a  husband  who  finds  his  wife  whom  he  believes  to  be  faithful
to  him  in  a  position  of  that  kind  is  one  which  might  excuse  him
almost  from  receiving  any  punishment  at  all  for  taking  such
sudden  and  violent  vengeance  on  the  man.  I  cannot  feel  that
you  are  in  that  position,  and,  though  I  do  not  consider  your
crime  one  of  great  enormity,  I  must  pass  upon  you  a  sentence  which
will  let  the  community  know  that  the  foolish  and  reckless  carrying
of  firearms  is  not  to  be  encouraged,  and  that  when  a  man  does
put  himself  in  the  position  in  which  you  put  yourself,  he  must
take  the  consequences  of  his  own  acts.  I  sentence  you  to  be
kept  in  prison  for  eighteen  calendar  months  with  hard  labour.

BRITISH  POLICE  COURT
Shanghai,  December  4,  1906
Before  Mr.  G.  W.  King,  Police  Magistrate
Assault  by  a  Sikh  Constable
How  to  Evade  an  Agreement
Dungah  Singh,  Indian  P.C.  199,  was  charged  with  assaulting
and  beating  one  Chang  Ah-cum  at  No.  216,  Fearon  Road,  at  5.15
p.m.  on  December  2.
Inspector  Bourke  prosecuted,  and  intimated  to  the  Court
that  the  accused  was  on  duty  at  the  time  the  assault  took  place.
*****
His  Worship  (addressing  accused)  said:  I  consider  the
evidence  given  by  the  prosecution  to  be  true  ;  that  you  did  do
what  you  are  said  to  have  done.  In  an  ordinary  case,  perhaps,
it  would  be  meet  to  give  you  a  fine  only,  because  the  assault  is  not
a  grave  one.  I  cannot  overlook  the  fact  that  at  the  time  you
were  on  duty,  and  from  the  fact  that  you  were  on  duty  and  that
you  did  what  you  are  accused  of  having  done,  I  believe  you
had  ulterior  motives  ;  that  your  desire  was  to  get  out  of  the
Police  Force.  The  evidence  of  the  J  emadar  seems  to  point  to
that  too,  and  you  yourself  have  made  no  effort  to  contradict
his  evidence.  I  have  taken  into  consideration  your  past  record,
both  as  you  claim  to  have  been  in  the  Cavalry  and  also  in  the
Police,  more  especially  in  the  Police.  There  has  been  no  previous
conviction  against  you,  but  in  spite  of  that  I  must  send  you  to
prison.  You  were  a  policeman  on  duty  in  uniform,  and  y° u
have  disgraced  your  uniform  ;  you  are  put  there  to  keep  order,
and  you  go  and  make  disorder.  You  might  attain  your  object