Defendant was summoned by two jinrikeba cooley, Suevchuog Tia and Chou-pah Sang, for assaulting them -about ten o'clock on Suturday morning Jas! defendant was brought up in custody of the Police on Monday, on the same charges, but complainants not appearing, he was discharg ful} him he would have to appear agai td told that if summonses were issued aga otuny an unemployed seaman, living at the Boar's this Head Tavern, Hongkew.
The firet-named complainant did not now pear, and defendant, on being asked if Ited the second, who was standing near him in Court, said he did not know the m but there was another, not now present, a short stout man, whom he struck in his owa defence, and who afterwards ran away with his (defendant's) hat. He was riding in a jinricsha to the Sailors' Home, and on arriving there told the coolie to wait outside till he came out; but the coolie thought he was not going to pay the fare, came inside the Sailors' Home gateway to him,
snatching his hat off. Ho could not keep his and gave him two or thr pease, besides temper on being served so, and struck the coolie with his open hand, but not to burt him, and the coolie then ran off with his hat down the Broadway. He did not see the complainant now present at all. It happened about ten o'clock in the forenoon, and he (defendant) was sober. After he left the Soilors' Home, he was going to the Hongkew lice Station to report the coolie for stealing hat, when he met a Police Sergeant coming out, who took him into custody and locked him up. There were no foreigners nar the gate of the Sailors' Home to see the affair, but person afterwards gave him another hat, He went to the Sailors' Home to speak to Cox, a constable employed there, and saw and spoke to him.
CHOU-PAH SUNG, deposed, through Hedin,—About tea o'clock on Saturday morning, was with my jinricksba near the gate of the '7th Dec. China Merchants' Wharf. I had taken a R, (Jous Hexry Lypo) v: F. Raxpaut. Chinaman there, and was sitting in the doorway waiting for another fare, when the défend-Aesault with a Knife, de. ant came up in another jinriksbs, He Complainant, a little nian of colour, possess-was not He got out of the ing great volubility and a remarkable aptitude jinrikshs, and begsn to strike the coolie for requiring a question to be repeated before who had pulled him, but I do not know what answering it, for which he was often: checked for. I did not see the coolie take defendant's in the progress of the case, is cook of the bat; but on being struck the coolie ran away.
Hopewell, He summoned defendant; sea-I had done nothing: to defendant, and was man of that vessel for assaulting and wouud-still sitting down when he came to me and ing him with a knife, on the 4th September, struck me twice with his fist—on my mouth while the vessel was on the high seas, and side. My mouth bled at the time, I do Complainant deposed—On the 4th 'Septem. not know why he struck me. I went to fetch ber Inst, the crew complained that their food policeman, and the defendant walked by my was not well-cooked, and I went into the side as far as the Sailors' Home. The China forecastle to them, to say I was very sorry Merchants' Wharf is below the Sailors' Home. that the food had been spoiled: that day. Defendant went into the Sailors' Home, and The defendant was in the forecastle the gave information ci the assaults, Defendant I went on to the Hongkew Police Station, and time, e his dinner—beef and hi He was using a knife to cut his food with, was wearing a lat when he went in at the After Iliad been in the forecastle n little Sailors' Home gate, The other coolie followed while, defendant threw the beef he was eating us there, and defendant again struck him. A the floor, and passing the knife from his policeman came with me from the Station, ight hand to his left, struck at me with it, and defendant was taken into custody. inflicting a wound on my left. hand, There Worsutr (to defendant)—Complainant's was a dib. soup-and-bouilli tiv, filled with story and yours differ widely, and as the tea to drink, standing on the floor near defend. Policeman who took the charge down is not ant, which he took up and struck me a severe in Court, I shall adjourn the case till to-blow with on the back of the head, I was morrow morning for his attendance, You made quite giddy by the blow, and felt must be here at ten o'clock, anid if you wish to call Cox, or anybody else a3 a witness, you pain for two or, thre days. afterwards, also lost a great deal of blood from the had better warn them to be present. wound in my laud. Defendant also kicked out of the forecastle, I wont to the Captain in hia cabin, on the 4th September, 6th Dee, to have my wound dressed. I was bleeding (Carvese) v, Jases Connis, nearly to death.
Adjourned Charges of Assault, Defendant slated that complainant was very insolent when in the forecastle, and told Defendant had been summoned for assault-the' portion of the crew there that, if they ing two jinricsha coolies; the case was partly wanted their food cooked better, they would heard on Wednesday, and' was adjourned for have to fight for it, The food had often the production of further evidence,—One of before been so badly cooked as to be at time the complainants was ogam absent. uneatable, and this, with the complainant'
Acting Police-sergeant Oxses stated that Insolence, 80 enraged him (defendant) thet he when defendant was taken to the Hongkew pushed complainant out of the forecastle, and Police Station on the morning of the assault, he was not sober. threw the soup tin at him, It was only a 2.lbs. tio, containing tea, and caught com: lamont on the hand, Was sure it did not said that defendant was taken by the thi it lim on the head. Defendant added that coolie past the Sailors' Home, at which pi he did not know if he had his knife in hia he wanted to stop; and that when defen hand at the time, but admitted that he found where he was, he struck the runner who kiciced complainant out of the forecastle. was drawing him, Defendant then wanted to told complainant to go out of the forecastle, get into the jinrikeha belonging to the second before pushing him, and he refused to go. Complainant, who, having seen him strike the other man, refused to let him ride, whereupon defendant' struck him Defendant ad-into the forecastle to say how sorry ho was Complainant repeated that he merely wont
mitted to about spoiling the dinner, when defendant Defendant, fan upon him at once, and did not at first order him out, Defendant's statement about the tin was not true—he did not throw the tin, but struck him on the head with it,
of the occurrence on the 4th September, til Captain Laxauois deposed I knew nothin complainant came aft, with his finger bleed-soon What he di ing. Looked at his finger, and saw a little stab there. T could not get any sense out of did in his own defence, and thought he had him about it, though ho was not senseless; 80 been already punished enough for it, as he wont into the forecastle to make enquiries, was locked up for forty-eight hours in Hongkew Police Station. had been in and The port watch were then below, and com-about Shanghai for six years, and had lained of their dinner having been spoiled, been in trouble like this before. Ho could whey said they saw defendant strike com: appeal to residents in Shangh Plginané and posh him out of the forseay character. bound the wound up with linen and friar' balsam, and it was well in two days, when His Worsmrr said with regard to de-Taw it again and gave it another dressing, fendant's having been locked up for forty-By well, T mean the wound had closed. ight hours, that he could not help it. If Complainant interrupted by saying that the men would do wrong on a Saturday, they wound was bad for two weeks, and that he can't complain if they are locked up till Monday Aressed it himself. morning. The particular man whom defendant Witness resamed—Complainant told me also was charged with assaulting, was not the man that he bad been strack on the head with a who took his hat, but aman who apparently had in, thrown at him by defendant, and I entered done nothing to him, The first mau, however, the log-book.s0. I had' made entries Was not present, and there was in consequence in the log-book before this occurrence, of only one charge against defendant to be dealt complaints by the crew about the defendant with. On that charge, His Worship would fine bim $2, and costs, $1.50; and if he bad cooking that he had spoiled their foud, The starboard watch complained frst. I we could not pay the fine, he must go to prison for a week. ther and examined the "duff," and found it was not eatable. There are several other Defendant asked for time to pay the money, and was allowed till twelve o'clock at noo, entries of a similar nature in the log-book. I reduced complainant's wages from £3 10s
R, (Pouce) v. Cannes McEwen, the food. I think the crew have a fe growld per month, in consequence of his spoiling
of complaint him, "The cook has no right to be in the forecastle in the day-time, although and was found byl ¢ Police drunk and in-Defendant belongs to the steamer Sarpedon; ko sleeps there at night, Hesbould leave the forecastle in the day-time, if the crew wished capable in the Navking-road, at 7.45 p.m., on him todo so, All the crew were good men the Sth instant. with the exception of the cook.
Ordered to pay costs, and return to his By Complaiuant—The crew came aft many ship, times, "to complain about their food being
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