Shanghai, 8th July. Before J. C. E. Dovctss, Esq., Police Magistrate.
Aurrep WAME AND Janes Alfred Waine and James Aylmore, A. B.'s of H. M. S. Brita: with disorderly conduct and violently Police-Sergeant Macdonald bubbling Well Road on the 7th Aylmore pleaded guilty. Waine denied assaulting the sergeant.
His Worship remanded the case until 2 pin. in order to communicate with the Captain, so that be might have an officer present if he wished.
Loh Ah-che said that he was a mafoo from the Hongkew Kung Yi stables. He was driving three sailors along the Bubbling Well Road. Two of them wanted to hold the reins. Witness would not allow them to do so as the road was under repair and a steam-roller was at work. Because he refused they struck him. They pulled the rei and struck the pony. The pony made away towards the roller and then stopped.
Some of the harness was broken. witness called to a policeman and told him that the sailor wanted him to fix up the harness and let them drive. The policeman advised wit ness to take the pony away but the sailors followed him up and struck him. Witness met a foreigner and told him about it. The foreigner went up to the sailors and was also struck by them. Witness then wont with the pony to the police station.
Native constable 343 stated that he saw a carriage. The hat was spoilt and the foreigners wore telling the mafoo drive. The mafoo refused and called for the police, Witness told the sailors that the carriage was spoilt and they could not ride in it any longer. He told the mafoo to take the pony and carriage to the police station. Witness got throe coolies to take the carriage, and while the mafoo was leading ' the pony the sailors assaulted him. They met the officer in charge of the district, Carter Road. Waine went up to the mafoo and witness told the officer about the carriage. The sergeant told him to take them both to the station. Alymore struck the sergeant on the back with his fist and Waine struck him on the nose. One caught the sergeant on the back of the neck and took him towards a small creek at the side of the road. The accused were taken to the station by witness and a Chinese and Indian constable.
By Warne—Witness saw Waine strike
caught him by the head. On seeing the sergeant on the nose. Then he this witness blew his whistle Chinese Constable 655 said he was at the entrance of Vu Yuen Gardens. A tall foreigner wanted to take the reins from a mafoo (identified Aylmore). He pulled the reins and truck the pony. The pony jumped and broke the harness. They remained in the carriage. Witness advised them all to go to the station. The mafoo took charge of the pony and three coolies took the carriage. Aylmore wanted the pony to be put into the carriage again. While going along they met the sergeant in charge of the district. The sailors followed them and struck the sergeant, Waine caught the sergeant by the head and the officer in charge of Sinza district came up.
Sergeant John Macdonald said that he broken trace. He went towards Aylmore was in charge of Carter Road police station. At 5 p.m. on the 7th inst. he was separating them. He got Aylmore by Macdonald with the intention of going up the Bubbling Well Road in plain the waist'but he fell tothe ground and clothes. He met a mafoo leading a pony at the same time witness received a with the harness partly trailing on the blow over his left shoulder from Mac-road. There was. sailor following him—donald. A policeman then came and Waine. There were two more in the took him into custody. carriage which was being brought along Sergeant Macdonald said that he had by coolies. The mafoo said the sailors been to the doctor, who had said that wanted to drive and had frightened the his nose was not broken but that he had pony. There were two native and two avery deep wound.
Indian constables following. Witness His Worship said that it seemed to advised the sailors to get into ricshas. have been a most unprovoked assault and They wanted to know who he was. He accused might think themselves very said he was the sergeant in charge of the lucky that they were not sent to prison [district and advised them to get into without the option of a fine. They would rieshas and not cause any farther trouble be fined $15 each or in default one woak's in the matter. He than turned his back imprisonment with hard labour. $20 of and walked away. When he had gone the fines would go to Sergt. Macdonald. about five paces Aylmore came along, swung his arm round from behind, and hit him on the nose. Witness staggered from the blow, but saved himself from
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