No Excuse for Practising Pugilism on Chinese: One of the Owego's Crew Fined Sidney Hughes, a young, seaman appeared before' Mr. G. W. King fon Monday charged with having. a saulted the No. 1 Boy at the Bane bury Institute.
Chief Insp, O'Toole informed t court that an officer war sent to t Tnstivwre, in response to & telephone message, to arrest the defendant: Tt appeared that arrangements had been made by the British Consular authorities to send defendant away by the Empress of Russia on Sune day morning, but he failed to go aboard and the Shipping Office nee cordingly gave orders that he waa not to be furnished with any more food at the Institute. He turned up for sil, and when informed of this Jainant gave evidence to this effect, and denied that he first hit Hefendant with a shoe or that, he ayidered other Chinese to attack him with sticks and shoes.
Mr. Gee, assistant manager at the Institute, told the court that when he went to warn defendant at 7.80 on Sunday morning that he wi to leave by the Empress at 11, found him in one of the dormitories drinking Chinese wine with other men, Hughes said that he would not go away because he had a lawsuit against his former ship. "When asked to leave the Institute, he threatened to wait outside and beat up the Chinese one after the other.
Defendant informed his Worship that the ship he came out in, the Owego, a freighter, had been sold and the members of the crew were given a pro~ mise that they would be returned to Seattle, with wages and assistfanee,-and if he had gone away on the Empress he would have lost all he signed and worked for. "A law suit was pending and seven mon were interested in it, His Worship—But does that entitle you to hit a Chinese boy?
Defendant—No, but he made rush at me, and T got several blows from others.
The Court was informed that des fendant had received $200 and "blew it in" on the same day.
Defendant—When the ship was derelict on the Aleutian Islands.
His Worship—t don't want to hear a long story of the sea. It can be no excuse for hitting a Chinese boy on the nose, and threatening others. You must' pay $10 or go to prison for seven days.
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