MAN STABBED BY CHINESE
-" "w ASSAILANT SENT TO GAOL (PEESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) GISBORNE, November 13. An affray in which one of the parties was stabbed in the arm with 3 knife and the other received a blow I which temporarily closed one eye, re- ) suited in the appearance before Mr , R. W. Walton, S.M., this morning of Louie Kit, a Chinese gardener, to ani swer 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 Mat- , chett, 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. f The accused had been on friendly i terms with the girl's family, and had
been encouraged by her mother to pSf I attention to the girl. The assault efl-f dently was inspired by jealousy, »»| the accused was fortunate that «?■ charge against him was not more sen" ■ ous. . I Kit was sentenced to 14 days' fl*| prisonment 1
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21630, 14 November 1935, Page 8
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