Young Man Fined for Assaulting Police rough and tumble in Broadway on Sunday night led to the appearance of " young man named Miller before, Mr. G. W. King at H. M. Police Court on Monday. He was charged with having been drunk and Aigordrly, and with sulting a Shih police constable.
Inspector O'Toole told the court that shortly after 9 o'clock on Sunday night two foreigners began fighting at the corner of Broadway and Tiendong Road and the Sikh constable went to arrest them.
Miller, however, got hold of him ind and knocked him down, viking him with his fists and him on the elbow. Other came on the seer Miller was arrested, but he was violent on the way to the police station.
After evidence had been given bearing out this statement, defend~ ant explained his part in the pro ceedings. He said that a sailor ran after another man, whom he said had taken his money, and brushed hhis riesha as he went by. Three or four men began fighting and witness went in to try and separate them. "I never looked at who I hit," he added. "I might have hit the Sikh, Dut I was looking out for myself.'
'The Magistrate observed that really an assault on the police ought to' be punished by imprisonment without the option of a fine, but he would give Miller a chinee and let him off with $5 or three days
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