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INSULTING REHAFIQUR......

Among traffic cases, heard by Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy yester day was one in which the driver of a taxicab was charged with refusing to complete his journey and insulting his

fare.

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The complainant, Mr. T. F. O'Sullivan, said that he was travelling in the car from the Post Office to Robinson Road on the evening of October 4th, when the defendant stopped at the Albany, juac tion and refused to go further. Witness declined to pay. the fare unless the journey was completed, and the defend, ant then used insulting language and came back with a foot pump which he brandished before complaint's face with further bad language.

A Chinese constable corroborated the eridence.

Defendant denied that he used abusive language and gave as his reason for not completing the journey that there was

an obstruction on the road,

His Worship convicted on both charges imposing a Sne of $15 for insult and 810 on the other charge.

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"A SHOCKED HUSBAND.

RAVING LUNATIC AS BRIDE.

A GILBERTIAN EPISODE

An almost incredible story, which reads opera than actual fact, was related in more like the libretto of a Gilbertian

the District Court, Singapore. It relates to the marriage adventures of a Chinese ten-dealer who alleged that after making contract with the three marriage brokers to supply him with a pretty young, Chinese girl for his wife they who, after trying to stab one palmed off upon him a raving lunatic of his daughters, had to be sent to the Asylum, The substance of his claim was the return to the defendants, Lim Bow, Ang Leok of the brokerage fee of $390 he had paid

and Lim Toh, and he based his claim on the plea, which according to his story seemed amply justified, that the conside ration for which the coney had been paid bad failed.

The plaintiff, who is a widower, was first approached by two women and a man, who were marriage brokers, and should make another venture into matri the Ruggestion was made to him that he many, the brokers backing up the sug gestion with the statement that they had 23 years of age, who would be an ideal a pretty young girl named Toh Cheow, match for him. The lady had been adopted by the first- and second defend. ants with the object of her being given In another case, in which Chief Inspec-in marriage to the son of the third de tor Aris prosecuted, a Chinese was fendant, but whatever liking the girl charged with negligent driving. He ad- had had for the match, had since cooled mitted the charge.

off and she had no desire to marry Lim Toh's son. The plaintiff fell in with the suggestion that she would be an ideal mate for him and expressed his agree. ment with the proposal by the payment of 890 out of the 8320 which the brokers required for marriage expenses.

Negligent Driving.

Inspector Aris explained that at about quarter past six on the 13th inst, he was driving down Stubbs Road in his Austin 7 car. There was another vehicle approaching, and when they were nearly abreast, the defendant suddenly esme from behind with no warning. To avoid a collision, Inspector Aris was compelled to apply both brakes, and pull right into the wall. Had he been driving a bigger car, he added, a collision would have been inevitable.

The defendant was fined $20.

Excessive Load,

The owner and driver of a lorry were summoned, the former for allowing the lorry to be overloaded, and the latter with-having-inefficient-brakes.

The Happy" Meeting. On the day in June fixed for the mar riage the three defendants with the marriage brokers waited on the plaintif at his house and claimed the balance of the brokerage, $300. After paying over. the money plaintiff sent his cousin, from whom he had borrowed a motor-ear for the purpose, with the marriage brokers to a house at the fourth mile on the Bukit Timah Road to fetch the bride. A shock awaited the expectant groom for Serg Hopkins said he saw the lorry on her arrival he discovered the bride at 2.20 p.m. on the 19th inst., in Garden to be a raving lunatic, who immediately Hoad proceeding towards Robinson Koad demonstrated her lack of the proprieties. He took the lorry to be weighed and by picking up a kaife and threatening "found the load was over two tona in ex-

daughter of the plaintiff. He was, cess of the maximum allowed.

therefore, obliged to place his newly ac The owner said the lorry was hired out,quired bride under restraint. Since the and he did not know what the load was The driver admitted having inefficient brakes.

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Sub-Inspector Alexander said the owner had been before the Court before, after which his Worship remarked that the owner was trusting to those things with out any excuse at all, and it was useless for him to say he did not know. He must have known about it. He fined the owner $30 and the driver 10.

TELL-TALE FINGER PRINTS.

SELK- GOODS FOUND IN PAWNSHOP,

A quantity of silk stolen from Mesers. Assomull & Company's store at Queen's Road Central,

cigarette holder from the Tabaqueria, Filipina, and other pro- perty were traced to pawnshops following the arrest of a Chinese with the tickets in his possession.

He was charged, at the Central Magis tracy yesterday,

A representative of the silk store iden- tified the defendant as the man who called at his shop several times during the cheap sale, Witness said that he aus- pected the man to be a thief in spite of the fact that he carried a bundle of bank adtes in his hand and told him to leave the shop. Witness further identi- fed four picces of silk as the property of the shop

Defendant denied the thefts, but ad mitted pawning the articles which he said were bought by him.

His Worship found defendant guilty. Sub-Inspector Vincent preferred an other charge against the defendante of returning from banishment. Evidence of identity of finger prints with those ap pearing in the banishment warrants wis given, but although the top of one finger of defendant's left hand was missing and appeared so in the impressions he still maintained that he was not the man.

Sentence was deferred until to-morrow for further evidence of an interpreter.

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ALLEGED THEFT BY RICKSHA COOLIE.

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kill of Chinese doctors brought about no improvement in her condition, be com- plained to the brokers, whose reply was a suggestion that he should pray for the restoration of her health. As the sem- bayang" was also without result the bride had to be removed, viz Beach Road Police Station and the General Hospital, to the Asylum at Pasir Panjang, where she still" remains.

At the conclusion of the plaintiff's story, Mr. Sarwar told Mr. A. V. L. Davies, who appeared for the defendants (Mr. M. C. Johannes was for the plain- tif), that he took a very serious view of the case. Il, after hearing the defence, be found for the plaintiff, he would have to deal-severely with the defendants, as it seemed to be a case of cheating.

The defendants' version of the story has yet to be told..

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A Sikh from Shanghai, was charged at the Central Magistracy yesterday with being drunk and disorderly at the Sikh Temple, where he was allowed lodging.

Evidence was given by a priest that defendant was frequently drunk and therefore had to be asked to leave the temple. On the last occasion when wit- neas remonstrated with the defendant on bis conduct he said that defendant shook him by the beard.

A Sikh police inspector, who was also president of the temple committee, said that defendant was a bad man and had no right to be in the temple.

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