At HM. Police Court on Monday, before Mr. G. W. King, Magistrate, A. J, Cooper and 4 Scott, Is of HLM.S. Cockchafer, were charged with being drunk and disorderly in Nanking Road at 12.50 on Sunday morning and with assaulting Tsang Ts-tseu.
Inspector Kerrigan appeared for the police, and evidence was given that accused assaulted complainant whilst he was getting into a ricsha at the New World. They then ran down the Nanking Road, chased by a crowd of Chinese, and Cooper struck a Chinese police constable who tried to arrest them.
Cooper asked whether the Chinese constable thought he was able to protect them from the mob of some 200 Chinese who were chasing then. Cooper added that a number of Chinese pushed him in the back, and if Scott had not come back to help him he would now have been in hospital.
The constable admitted that Chinese were swarming round the defendants. They were trying to help in the arrest.
P. S. Treacher said that when defendants were brought in at Louza station they were under the influence of drink. They said that the man whom they assaulted was inciting the crowd against then.
Cooper complained that he had been "punched" while in the dock the station.
Inspector Kerrigan said he was quite willing to go into the witness box.
The hearing was adjourned, the complainant being still under medical treatment.
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