AtH. M. Police Court on Wednes day, before Mr. G. W. King, Police Magistrate, an unemployed sailor named W. H. MeGuff was charged with having been drunk and lis-orderly in Whangpoo Road on the oth instant.
Major C. P. Holcomb, U. 8. District Attorney, said that on Monday' last there was a disturbance in the vicinity of the U. Consulate between some American sailors and some Chinese. The defendant was found in a doorway in a very drunkencondition. Tt was known that he had come off an American ship, and it was thought that he was an American, so the law officers of the U. 8. Consulate took charge of him. It was not until the following day that he became sufficiently sober to explain that lo was a British subject, and he was then handed over to the Police.
Chief-Inspector Bourke said that defendant was one of the undesirables who were making themselves such a nuisance here. His behaviour was most obnoxious.
The defendant was ordered pay a fine of $5, with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment with hard labour.
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