Willie Tong Not Tai Sing
TANGLE OF CHINESE IDENTITY Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Willie Tong, who served four days in Mount Eden prison, is not Tai Sing. This much was decided by Mr. Justice Reed this morning, when he ordered Tong’s release. Ono counsel said that the position seemed to bo that Tong, for a long time, had been carrying on as Tai Sing, but ho had no evidence to offer. Counsel for tho Chineso said he had a witness to prove that Tong was not Siug. Tho Judge said the defendant had behaved in an absurd -way. The amount involved iu the debt proceedings was only £B, and, although the papers had been wrongly served on him, he allowed proceedings to go on, and actually went to gaol. Tho Judge refused to grant costs against tho persons who had tho defendant imprisoned, but said if an action was taken for damages for wrongful imprisonment, costs could then be added.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7193, 27 June 1933, Page 6
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