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Attempts to rescue prisoners from or to obstruct the
Police in the discharge of their duties. 3 FL3 12.
C. C. 219, Ip Sai Cheong, reports at 9.15 p.m. that about 9.45 p.m. on the 19th. December, 1911, while he was on duty in Yunnan Lane he saw a girl and a man pulling one another about and about making a noise: he told them to go away and as they refused he pushed the girl and she at once called out that the Police had struck her: a number of people gathered and called out "strike him". The C.C. arrested the girl and brought her to station. C.C. 163 and L.S. 225, Lam Ki, arrested one of the men shouted.
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Cheong Yung, coolie, arrested at 10 a.m. on the 19th. December charged by L.S. 572, Gunda Singh, with inciting a crowd of Chinese to assault the Police.
On 24th. December at 5.10 p.m. in Queen's Road West, P.C. 103, Barnett, who was in charge of a Police Picquet, was struck on the shoulder by a stone thrown from behind. The man who threw it was arrest- -ed by one of the plain clothes Chinese Constables attached to the Picquet.
P. C. 3, Attewell, reported at 2 a.m. on the 29th. December that about 1.30 a.m. while bringing a prisoner to station on a charge of being drunk and disorderly and when near No. 5 Station about 30 Chinese attempted to rescue his prisoner. The Constable fired two shots from the service revolver in the air and the crowd dispersed.
I.P.S. 682, Karu Allahi, reports that about 3 p.m. on the 30th. December while arresting Cheung Ko, Godown Keeper, No. 124, Wing Lok Street for causing an obstruction at Praya, Kennedy Town by weighing
a quantity of rice on the public footway there Cheung Ko caught hold of
of him by the collar and his tunic and shouted to his fokies to strike him. The fokies did not in any way interfere with him. Cheung Ko then came quietly to the Station where he was charged with assaulting the Police in the due execution of his duties, S. 34, Ordinance 2 of 1865. Cheung Ko was allowed out on $150 bail.
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