At H. M, Police Court on Tuesday before Mr. G, W. King (Magistrate), Thomas Belcher, an unemployed ship's fireman, who wore the British War Medal and Mercantile Medal ribbons, was charged with being drunk and disorderly and with assaulting a Chinese outside the Hanbury Institute.
Chief Inspector Bourke, who appeared on behalf of the Police, said that defendant, who was drunk, the complainant without the sughest provocation, and then went into the Astor Bar, out of which was promptly thrown.
Defendant expressed his regret, and said he remembered nothing! about the affair.
Inspector Bourke informed the Court that offences of this kind were becoming very numerous in the neighbourhood of the Hanbury Institute. Men like the defendant gave the superintendent at the Institute and the Police a great deal of trouble.
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