Horrors in Wellington.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 513, 2 October 1890, Page 3

Horrors in Wellington.

[SPECIAL TO THE STANDARD.] Wellington, last night.

A fi-ht which occurred at th? lower Hutt in the early hourß cf Tuesday morning, between a number of young men and three or four Chinamen, resulted in the death of one European and severe injuries to a Chinaman. The party consisted of Charles Hobbs, Harry Bolton, Walter Maidinant, William Rouse, Edward England, and deceased (Thos. Smith) and another. Smith suggested that they should go across the bridge to the Chinamen they had visited early in the night. Stones were thrown for nearly five minutes, and then three Chinamen sprang out of a hedge, where they seemed to have been hiding. Others of their race joined in, and the young men ran away, but Smith, being weak from a recent illness, fell behind and was caueht by a Chinaman. Smith called out “ Help 1 They are slicking me I” Hobbs, Bolton, and Maidmant at once ran back, also England. Smith was on his right Bide, one Chinaman kneeling on his legs and another holding his head down, both having knives. Hobbs struck one Chinaman with a heavy slip rail from a fence to an adjoining paddock, and then struck another Chinaman (now in the Hospital) across tbe head and shoulders with it, upon which the Chinaman ran towards the township. A wound in Smith’s left leg severed the main artery, and thus caused his death. There were also two deep fl sh wounds across the left arm. Two of the Chinamen have been arrested.

A man named Dean, an expressman, for many years cab driver here, split bis child’s bead open with an axe this morning. The child was three years old. Dr Rawson says that Dean is mad, though on being brought to the police station he did not show signs of mania. Having become involved with a loan company, he was recently distrained on, and since then bis intellect began to give way. Tbe first known of the tragedy was upon his telling bis wife this morning that he had killed his little girl. It was found he had dashed her brains out with an axe. Dean was a unionist out on strike.