JAPANESE ATTACKS JUDGE

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 38, 14 August 1917, Page 2

JAPANESE ATTACKS JUDGE

(FKOMiOBE OWN CORRESPONDENT.) SYDNEY, 9th August. A weJJinowß Queensland Judge, Mr. ■Justice Shand, had a remarkable experience in Townsville,' where he .had. gone to preside at the sittings of the. Supreme Court. He had'a, Japanese ser. vant named Masajiro, whose behaviour recently had become curious and eccentric. So the Judge dismissed him. The Jap., however, refused to leave Ms ohambers. A Japanese merchant, Higashi, was called in, and remonstrated with hia countryman. Masajiio still refused to leave, so the Judge decided to'sleep at an hotel, and Higashi left. Then. Masajiro attacked him suddenly. He tripped the judge, threw him heavily, and beat his head on the floor. The Judge fought vigorously. The clamour was heard by Clancy, the Supreme Court caretaker, nearby, and he ran in and' closed with Masajiro. Masajiro behaved like a wild animal, and bit Clancy's ,hand. Clancy's 13-year-old boy joined in, and cracked Masajirp on the head' with a stick," and Masajiro fled.' The Judge, bleeding freely from the head, and suffering considerably from shock, was sent to a hospital, but his condition was not serious. The apparently demented Japanese returned later to the Judge's chambers, and was arrested.