H.M, Police Court, on Sept. 7 before Mr, A. J. Martin, Magis trate, William Paris, an engineer, was charged: with being drunk and disorderly on Broadway the day before, and also with assaulting x Chinese constable with his fists.
Sigh appeared in Court, been previously the complainant still in hospital, and gave evidence of assault, He said that on September 1, he was walking along Nanziang Road, by Hanbury' Road corner, when the two accused fell on him from behind, without speaking to him, and beat him with their sticks. He fell unconscious and was taken to hospital. Cross-examined by Mr. Newman he admitted that he had been up before the Supreme Court on a charge of assault, and had had various other fights and troubles during the past two years. He was unemployed.
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