(Fined five shiiings)
Shanghai, Sept. 26.
The plea that he was yo drunk as to be blissfully unaware of what he was doing was made by Kishan Singh, Sikh watchman vf 179 Ping-Mang Road, before Mr. C. 1. Haines, the Registrar, in HM. Police Court when charged with dis ochaviour while drunk on September 24, on Yulin Road. The prosecution was brought by the Municipal police.
Mr. Haines pointed out to defendant that his plea amounted to one of hot guilty, whereupon Kishan Singh changed his plea to one of guilty after Afr. Haines had explained to him that disorderly conduct included shouting for. boisterous behaviour" while Sub-Inspector J. Ring of the Vu Road station who arrested defendant said he had no previous conviction. Mr. Haines in imposing a fine of five shillings on defendant, equivalent 10, seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents, oF in default seven days" imprl-Sonment, observed to Kishan Sing! that the maximum fine for the offence was two pounds or a month's impri-soliment. He was taking a lenient view of the case, it being defendant's first offence, and warned him to be of Toture good. behaviour.
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