The Archive · 1903

The Wheel-barrow Nuisance

Mz. P. Crighton prosecuted a_wheelbarrow coolie for reckle sly running his wheel-barrow to the common danger, thereby colliding with a carriage, at the june tion of the Nanking and Chekiang Roads, at 7.30 p.m, on the 12th instant.

Mr. Crighton said that at 7.30 p.m. on the 12th instant he was driving up the Nanking Road in a giz. At the corner of the Chekiang Road a Sikh polic up his hand to stop the cross trate. Prisoner paid no heed to the ran his barrow across, almost collide with witness's gig. There was no act collision, but Inspector Wilson said that this kind happened very frequently, but the Poli great difficulty in getting foreigners to prosecute The prisoner was sentenced to one week's cangue on the scene of the offence.

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