'The prisoner, "captain" of the lorcha Lark, was brought up under arroatcharged committing an assault on the complainant, mafoo in the employ of a Chinesolivery stable Hain Dab, on Weduenday nigh'. ho evening in ques distance down the old railroad tower Woosung. 'The complainant for some reason declined to continue the journey, and the prisoner assaulted him, or gave him a shove unintentionally" with the horse whip, iuflicting a cut about hale an inch long' on the mafoo's forehead.
The prisoner was fined $3 and ordered to pay the costs
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