In the U. Court for China last Friday, Pressley E. Love appeared before Mr. N. E. Lurton, the Commissioner, charged with being drunk and disorderly, with committing wilful damage, and with assault. The, defendant pleaded guilty tothe charge of drunkenness, stating that, since the war, he had suffered from an ulcerated stomach, which caused him to be unduly affected by liquor. He remembered taking a drink or two with friends and that was all he knew until after the fracas. He said he was chief engineer's yeoman on the str.
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