might be debt but more likely drunkeness and inability to pay fine! if not more serious - he must have done something on Manx soil otherwise the Manx authorities would not like to pay for his keep in gaol!
crimes were reported in Manx press - also the daybook of the gaol around that period is in Manx museum
official records (prob in Manx museum would give reason for sentence)
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