At H, M. Police Court on Thursday, before Mr. G. W. King, Magistrate, P. W. Shea was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in North Szechuen Road on the previous day, and with assaulting the police.
Chief Inspector Burke informed the Court that defendant was going along in a ricsha when, on turning the corner into Haining Road, he struck the Sikh policeman on point duty across the back of the neck with a stick, without any provocation. The constable arrested him, and defendant, and his friend, gave a good deal of trouble. A foreign and a Chinese constable had to give assistance.
His Worship fined defendant $10, and warned him that he would not be treated so leniently if he repeated the performance.
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