FOR DANGEROUS ASSAULT

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12651, 11 January 1927, Page 6

FOR DANGEROUS ASSAULT

OLD CHINESE HELD SAID HE WAS A SCOTSMAN. Per' Press Association. DUNEDIN. January 10. When Kum Chong, a Chinaman o£ 77, was charged at the Polioe Court with having caused bodily harm to Charlie Loo Hung, he shouted volubly in his native tonguo. An interpreter stated that Chong was saying tjiat he was a Scotsman who had arrived only to-day. Later the accused loudly declared that he had killed a man be had followed, hut the complainant Hung was not he. When the accused was quiet the police explained that both Chinamen were inmates of the old men’s home. Hung killed a blackbird, and Chong strongly objected. Later the accused was seen assaulting the complainant with a pocket-knife, and Hung was in hospital for eight days. The magistrate, in committing the accused to the Supremo Court, stated that ha would request the Minister for Justice to have the accused detained in a mental hospital.