lors out of employment ataying xt the Sailore' Home, were charged with ealing two bottles of gin from a Chine store, at Hongkew, on the previous evening.
An assistant in the store stated that the prisoners came to the store about five o'clock on Monday evening. Macdonald asked for tio bottles of gin which were supplied to him, and he lauded them to Skinner who walked away, Macdonald then tendered a dollar in. payment, and—_witno discovered that the coin was counterfeit, a brass one, Witness then followed Skinner to the Sailors' Home, where he was molested by four or five other sailors, They told him that the gin had been drunk, and that the dollar was a good one. He communicated with the police and the prisoners were taken to the station.
Both prisoners denied that they w the dollar was bad.
serjeant SKINNER deposed that as he was bringing Macdonald to the Police Court he expressed regret for what he had done, and said he had been drawn into it by oth and that he hadn't even got a drink of the gin, adding that he was afraid Skinner had made the care worse by uring bad language at the police station.
The prisoner Skinner admitted having used bad language, hut said the Sergeant called hi a thief and flew at him like a bulldog. He was not awy the dollar was a bad one, Sailors were not accustomed to make bad dollars, and he supposed it was made by a Chinaman; therefore, the storekeeper ought not to complain.
Macdonald repeated that he did not know the dollar was a bad one, and said he wa sorry the affair had occurred.
His Woxsmir said he had no doubt they both knew the dollar was a bad one, and that they had obtained the gin by this trick which they lad arranged, fe should send them to gaol for fourteen days each.
Jan, Ith, (Pouce) v, Tastes O'BRIAN, Drunk and Disorderly.
Prisoner, a sailor belonging to the barque Carnarvonshire, was charged with being drunk and disorderly.
Between eleven and twelve o'clock on the previous evening he was apprehended by the police for drunkenness, in Hongkew, and when taken to the Police Station he was very abusive and attempted to assault the police several times.
Committed to gaol for seven days, with an order that if the vessel sailed earlier he was to be put on board.
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