CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT
... Trial of a Mohammedan. Manadla, a Hindoo sailor, aged 20, was tried on Mon- day, for stealing, on the 24th of February last, three slk shawls, value 31., and 14 yards of silk, value 21., the property of Sheik Mohammed.; He was asked whether he would be tried by half English and half foreigners, or by a jury all English? He replied that he wished to be tried by the laws of his own country. When ...