EUROPEANS AND CHINESE.
TROUBLE IN RESTAURANT. FAILURE OF PROSECUTION. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCffIJRCH, Wednesday. At the Magistrate's Court to-day the case against Leonard Wilkinson and Thomas Ferguson of having stolen a sum of money from a Chinese and a second charge against Wilkinson of haying stated lie was a detective were dismissed. The cases, which arose out of a disturbance in a Chinese restaurant on Spday, March 26, had been adjourned owing to the inteipreter proving unsa'tisfactory* The magistrate! said the only evidence against the defendants was the uncorroborated testimony of ons Chinese.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18059, 6 April 1922, Page 7
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93EUROPEANS AND CHINESE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18059, 6 April 1922, Page 7
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