Rosert Motttoay ap Parrick Ryax wore charged on rowand with wilful damage and with assaulting the police, His Wousmr aald: It there further evidence I will proceed to deal with the case.—T grant deal of difficulty in the the evidence is very conflicting, and am not quite cor tai now that Ihave come to a right cunelusi Still, there is something ahunt the story of the French police which makes it very dificult for me to believe it. At the same time the story told by the men somewhat difficult to believe. Th clear fact in the case is that Mulligan. was truck at least one somewhat violent blow in the face. Now the constable and the Chinese sought to explain the bruise on Mulligan's ince as havin been caused by a fall; but Ido not believe tit at all. The evidence shows that the constable entered the shop prepared to use hi baton, for he took off his cloak m th to be, as he said, more free, and then entered, carrying his truncheon in hit hand in the way one of the Chinese wi nesses described, which was just the way in which he would carry it if he expected to have, or intended, to use it at once; and in this connection I think his taking off his cloak in the stroct is cant circumstance. The questi: what time was the blow struck? If the French constable had suid he had struck the man after being attacked I should have had no difficulty in believing him, because it ought to be, prime facie, unlikely that s constable, whose duty it la to preserve the peace, would enter a shop where four men were, at the time, doing nothing to justify his interference, and strike one of them a violent blow on the head. Therefore, if the constable had said he had used the truncheon later in the disturbance should have believed that to be the fact. But he denies having used it at all; he says it was taken from him before he could use it. If that la ao, Tam at aloss to under st came by the bruises, and I am driven to 8 conclusion that this part of the constable's story is not to be believed. Whether he used his staff at the beginning, as the seamen ull say, or later on, 1 am not in a position to ssy; but-I cannot credit the policeman's story, and his atory being discredited there is no other story for mo to believe but that of the sailors—that this 'a face which clearly prove that ho used it. 1 think a grent deal more has been made of the sffair—ospecially by the French police and the Chines witnessea—than the facts warra not be the fact that the four seamon a upon the coustabl is not a very big man, and one of the anilers is a very big man, [tis not conceivable that he was set upon by these four mon, for he has not a acratel Tenn #00, What probably acer: Ryan took up the pipe and put down a dollar for it, and did not tice what became of the dollar, I bes that Mulligan picked up the dollar, Chinemau, not getting his money, went the police. Ryan seems to have had some idea what the Chinaman bad gone out for, and ho guve back the pipe and asked for his dollar, not knowing that Mulligan had pocketed it. It is aid that the pipe has beau returned, but the person from had it has not produced. All the four men waited they lad done anything which would led them to for the arrival of the poli¢e, would they not have gone away? When. the constable arrived they cleared out one after another, leaving the constable Sight ing with Mulligan, and in the struggle the Chinaman's property got injured, is another particular in which, do not believe the He says Ryan put his hand on his shoulder and hia coat got torn by his drawing himself away from Ryan's hand. Ryan says he did not put his hand on the constable's shoulder, and Mulligan says, 'I tore your cent when we a grant deal any charge gan, Lhave sume to the conclusion that he twas assaulted Gest. The constable, I think, bogan the disturbance. -Ho probably ex-Gitough he lind not the slightest ground ceted that he wae going to be attacked
that Lean see for so supposing), and determined to attack first. 1 do not think ho was molested in any way until after struck Mulligan, I therefore disniaa the charges against the two men,
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