The Archive · 1880

Criminal Cases

An old Chinese woman whose temper had not been improved by age, was fined $3 for Iting one of the "sterner sex,"—A chain-gang for a month and a half for stealing a kui ge.—Mesers. S.C. Farnham and Ca, charge a ith stealing four sheets of zinc, valued error in his choice of a piece of wood at the Ningpo Wharf sent to Sinza Refuge.—A native who selected an unsuit. able time for trying to enter a Chinese theatre and was detected in the act of trying to break tthe lock off the door, was sent to gaol for a month.

A five of $2 was inflicted on a man who beaten a pony cruelly in the Bubbling Well Road,—Two cooli fought up, who en having a pugilistic encounter in a damaged some of the furniture. to pay $1 for the damage tained by the landlord of the house; and each man had succeeded in injuring the other considerably, no further pavisbment was inflicted by the Court,—A man who upset 1a basket of fruit in the street during a quarrel with the owner was sent to gaol fur three days, 26th May. Cups, and W. R. Cannes Esq., British Assessor.

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