imum Penalty for Breaking'
Local Chemist's Window H, D. Fuller, American engineer without employment, who had ju: completed a term of imprisonment in the U.S, Court for vagrancy, was sentenced on Tuesday. to 60 days'
iment, fined G.$100 and costs orderly conduct, by Mr. N. E. Lurton, U.S. Commissioner. Mr. C. P. Holcomb, Acting United States District Attorney, prosecuted, assiat-'Gl by Inspr. Mackenzie in charge of Hungkew station. Defendant was unrepresented.
Accused, it will be recalled, de-Jiberately threw a stone through the plate glass window of Messrs.
O'Brien Twigg & Ca. and then confessed to Mr. O'Brien Twigg. that had done it intentionally, To the Dolice who arrested him, he remained non-committal as to the reason for his act, but admitted it readily. He wes to have come up for trial last week, but at the time the charge was incorrectly framed, and under the District of Columbia' Code break jing a window is not specifically mentioned. 'The trial was postpone! until yesterday to permit amending' the charge.
Although accused, when asked to! plead by his Honour, admitted the charge, the Commissioner asked for particulars of the ease. Mr. O'Brien! Twigg, in giving evidence, said the crash of the window, went outside, where he found accused
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