PICKED UP KNIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 157, 6 July 1939, Page 21

PICKED UP KNIFE.

CHINESE FRIGHTENED.

HORSE BREAKER PROSECUTED

STORY NOT BEUEVED

(By Telesraph—Own Correspondent.)

TE AKOHA, this day,

Accused of threatening to cut th, Croat of W-on K Too, a Chinese fruiterer, Uncelot f;oorl ffer , » horse breaker, ni'peared in the To Aroha Police Court l.rfore Mc*r S . J. A. Clothier and W W r.ght, J.P.V. Accused, who pleaded "•t guilty, wan represented by Mr. G. A.

l» broken English Wong Too said • ■'»»dg lT came into hi* shop and, picking "I' ;•■ naiilinower, placed it'on theSeJ •»< ' « fiiin« time inquiring the price. .<»><ig (T was told it was 2/0 and at that lie pu-ked up a knife from the counter and drew it acroes his throat in a threatcninjf manner.

"1 wiw afraid he would kill me so I ran out to get, ,i policeman," he said. When f went into the Chinaman's >""P I did not see the Chinaman," e aid lioodjror in evidence. "I bought a cauliIliiwiT and a cabbage, and it cost me 1/6 [ was served by a Chinese woman It 1.4 ridiculoita to say that T wa« silly rnoujrh to hike uj> a knife and threaten (r> rut liM Mi rout. I did not see him." "The. evidence given by the Chinese was very clear and it n"jipfirpntly was not mndo up at all.'" «uitl the Bench. Accused had been disorderly and had tinted in such a manner as to frighten (lie Chinese.

AcciiKod wns fined £2 and cosU were allowed at 10/.