TWO CHINAMEN QUARREL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 8, 11 January 1927, Page 15

TWO CHINAMEN QUARREL.

I j ONE EVIDENTLY MENTAE. • 1 SEQUEL IN COURT. 1 (By Telegraph — Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. ' When Kum Chong aged 7~, wa? charged at the Police Court with having > done bodily harm to Charlie Loo Hung ; lie shouted volubly in the natiw tongue, a lady interpreter stating th»l > he was saying he was a Scotsman, win ■ had only just arrived. Later accuscd loudly declared that he had killed n : ■ man, whom he had followed, but tha* ' the complainant. Hung, was not the one • > When accused became quiet, the polic' : explained that both the Chinamen weninmates of the old men's home. Hung ! killed a blackbird, to which Chonu j strongly objected. Later accused wn- I seen assaulting the complainant wit'.# an ! instrument like a pocket knife, a:i«! i Hung' was in hospital for eight [ The magistrate, in formally commit- 1 ting the accused to the Supreme Court ; stated that he would reque st the Mini- • ter of Justice to have him detained .1; ; j a mental hospital.