In H. HI, Police Court on Tuesday morning before Mr. I. T. Morris, Registrar, Mr. E. T, Maitland pro-securing, Arthar Andrado and W. Richard Perera, who claim to be shop assistants at No. 106 Sechuen Road, were charged with being drank and incapable on the night of Saturday, December 24.
The first witness called was Det Inspector James Hunter of the Central Police Station who arrested the second accused in a showroom rented by Mr. C. D, Jackson from, Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Ca.
the second floor of No. 106 Szechuen Road. The first accused, was stated, had been in the employ of Mr. Jackson for three years and the second for six month: When the second accused was arrested, he was sober, and questioned a3 to where he had been the night, before he replied that he had been dining with a man named Silva, also a Cingalese, and the first ae: cused.
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