BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 192, 18 September 1914, Page 10

BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.

CHINATOWN TROUBLE. A Chinese named Gee Poy was one of the principals in a stabbing affray in Madras Street last February. He was attacked by a fellow countryman and received a serious wound. The assailant, Mou «Yow, appeared in court this morning, having beeu_ arrested in Wellington. Dr D. L. Sinclair, House Surgeon at the Christchurch Hospital, remembered a Chinaman being brought into the hospital on February 8, suffering from a deep wound on the left temple, bleeding profusely, which appeared to have been made with a knife. Gee Poy, a labourer living in Southward Street, questioned by Chief-Detec-tive Bishop through an interpreter, said that about 7.30 on Sunday evening, February 8, he had been sitting in a room together Avith several other Chinamen, when Mon Yow came in and sat down by the kitchen table, beside his wife. Mon Yow started teasing her, and witness told him to stop and go out. There had been some dominoes on the table, which Mos Yow had picked up and slung at the woman. The woman cried, and witness again ordered Mon Yow.out of the house. Gee Poy then saw a knife in Mon Yow's hand, and four other Chinamen put him out. Before that one of them had cried out, '' Look out, he's got a knife.'' ' They shut the door but Mon Yow afterwards broke in and stabbed witness with the knife. Witness had seen the knife in his hand. After that Mon Yow ran away. He had not seen him with any tobacco in his hand when he rushed at him. Witness had been in the hospital four days. Mon Yow did not to ask witness any questions. Ching Fong, a market gardener in St. Albans, expressed his willingness to take the oath any way, either by blowing out a match or by taking the Bible, and he was sworn in the usual jnanner. He gave similar evidence to Gee Poy. When Mon Yow had gone out of the room first witness had gone too, and he had not seen him after. Mon Yow: You see Gee Poy start first. Ching Fong: Gee Poy didn't start first; you did. - . Constable Thomas Henry Price, of Kilbirnie, stated that he arrested the accused on.the present charge on the 6th of the present month, when' he had admitted that he was wanted on a warrant at Christchurch. He had said that he was Mon Yow and that the injury to Gee Poy had been done with a pocket knife, but it- had been accidentally done while he was cutting up some tobacco. There had also been a quarrel when they were playing cards, and Gee Poy had taken up a chair and was going to hit him. After a short dialogue had taken place between the interpreter and accused, the former announced that Mon Yow pleaded guilty and he. was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. • .