THE CHINESE MANIAC

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 3 June 1919, Page 5

THE CHINESE MANIAC

SHOT DEAD BY RETURNED

SOLDIER

B^ CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIGHT SYDNEY, Jun c 2.

A tremendous crowd witnessed the last stages of the Chinese siege. His refuge w-as a small weatherboard cottage in East street, the centre of the Chinese quarter. The police kept up a, heavy fusillade with rifles and revolvers, to which the man frequency replied. The fire bri-' gade got several hoses to work, but, in attempting to secure a better position, two firemen were shot, but not severely. The siege continued till 10 o'clock, when, after pouring in great quantities of water, the police, with a sudden rush, burst the door. The two firemen who were shot make the total victims 17, most of them being slightly wounHed. ] Preparations were made to bomb the maniac out. but the nnal rush made this unnecessary. A returned soldier named Ryan, borrowing a police revolver, and waving aside their admonitions to be cau- [ tious, rushed the Chinaman, who fired two shots, but missed Ryan, who with a single shot killed, the desperado. The latter had kept the police at bay for fifteen hour®.