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Show TO TESTIFY AT SANFRANC1SC0 Chatterji Tells of Journey Through Orient in Connection Con-nection With Plot. SAN K H A N C 1 S ( ' 0 , Now Jodh I Singh, who appeared as one of the government's gov-ernment's principal witnesses in the recent re-cent so-called Hindu plot trial in Chicago, Chi-cago, will appear in the same role here Tuesday when he will testify in the trial of' thirty-four persons charged with conspiring to overthrow British rule in India. Jodh was named in the indictments which brought the Chicago and San Francisco defendants to trial for 'participation 'par-ticipation in the same alleged piot. His name and alleged activities figured today to-day in the testimony of Suknmar Chatterji, Chat-terji, another government witness, but his status in the trial, like Chatterji 's, will be that of witness for the prosecution. prosecu-tion. The cross-examination of Chatterji .was completed late today. His testimony testi-mony was confined principally to a journey which he is alleged to have made trom this port through the Orient to Bangkok, Siam, and to the Hindus and German consular officials he is said to have co-operated with in furtherance of alleged conspiracy. Admission that he had told the British officers who arrested him at Bangkok that the Germans were not aiding 1 the Hindu plot, and he knew this statement to be untrue, was made by the witness. He described his arrest ar-rest and subsequent solitary confinement confine-ment in Singapore in detail, sa'ing that, the British officers had told him that he was liable to be executed for treason. The defense introduced excerpts of the evidence given by Chatterji m Chicago. |