MAN STABBED
CHIN‘ESE SENT TO GAOL. > (Per Press Association). * ‘GISBORNE, November 13. - ‘An afiray in which one of the parties was stabbed in the arm with a knife and the other received a blow which temporarily closed one eye, resulted in the appearance before Mr R. W. Walton, S.M.. this morning of Louie -Kit, :1. Chinese gardener, to answer a charge of assaulting Stanley George Matchett, to which he pleaded guilty. . The prosecutor said that Matchett and a girl had been walking in the road when the accused rushed Matchett threatening him with a knife. Matchett attempted to guard himself, and received a. gash in the arm. He then attacked the accused, and held him while the girl took the knife away. . The accused had been on friendly terms with the girl’s family, and had been encouraged‘by her mother to pay attention to! the girl. The accused: evidently was inspired by jealousy, and the accused was fortunate that the charge against him was not more serious: 4 Kit was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 28, 14 November 1935, Page 7
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