Gzo. Fosren West who Inst week prosecutor in @ charge of assault og the mate of the ship Coriolanus who was convicted and fined $5, waa brought up on a summons for being absent from the ship without leave. Mr. Geo. Brown, Vice-Consul, prosecuted in the absence of the captain, The defendant admitted the offence, but pleaded that he was afraid of further violence at th heard bad been looking for since the conviction, 1 Captain who refused to pay him off. His Worship auid there was some justification for the defendant's action, but he admitted that he had broken the law, and so taking the cirommstences of ti-e case into consider: ation, he would only inflict " nominal punishment of 24 hours' imprisoume
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