Murshid Ah and Abdul Zabar, two members of the crew of the City of Paris, appeared before Mr. G. W. King on Wedn charged with having been run! and disorderly in Yuenfong Road on the previous night, and with assaulting a Chinese, and (Murshid) with carrying a revolver without a. licence.
Inspector Jones appeared for the police, whose story was that the accused were two of four men riding in two ricshas who refused to pay their fares, quarrelled with tha coolies and assaulted one of them. An unloaded revolver was found on Murshid.
Ah and Zabar protested that they paid the ricsha men a dollar and were asked for more, and they ran away when the coolies attacked them. Miurshid complained that the Chinese robbed him of £10 in notes and a few dollars, in exchange for which one of the coolies put the revolver into his pocket.
Only one of the ricsha men reported the matter at the police station, and as he now failed to appear the charge of assault was dismissed. For being drunk and disorderly the defendants werd fined $5, or seven days.
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