EUROPEANS TO STAND TRIAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1708, 27 March 1913, Page 9

EUROPEANS TO STAND TRIAL.

At tho Magistrate's Court yesterday Vincent Furnis.l and George Patrick M'Namara. wero charged' with baring assaulted Charles Yung Sing- at' 25 Frederick Street, on tho night of March 18, so as to oauso him bodily harm. - Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., was on the bench. Mr. l , J. J. M'Grath appeared for M'Namara, and Mr. E. J. Fitzgibbon for Furnisa. . . , Charles Yung Sing appeared with, his patched up. He stated in the course of Jus evidence that on the night of Jfaroh IS FurjiLss and M'Namara came to the back door of his house and asked for clothes. Witness replied that his : .place was not d laundry. Eurniss then struck him on itile head with a bottle, and M'Nurnam also threw a bottlo and hit him on tho head. He oalled for assistance, and his cry was responded, to by a Chinese named Han Fon and a woman named OoUrtenay. These two bathed his wounds. Mr. M'Grath: Do you go under the name of "Victor"? Witness: Yes. Were you over on the West Coast of the other island?—" Yes. I was golddigging there." Woro you ever in a plaoe called Staffoi'dtown ?—"Yes." Did you know a man named George Taylor theroP —"No; it ia so long ago 1-. oan't romember." Did you over 6tab a man down tlieio ?— TNTo." , Wore you ever charged with assaulting a man there?—"No; not in that town." Woll» in. what town?—'"ln no other town—only got into a row in Wellington. Were you not a terror to the district?— 'I could not sfly exactly." Did you just escape nearly being murdered there sevenal times ?-r"No." On tho night of the alleged assault M'Namara did hot attempt to run away after tho bottlo-throwing?—'"No." Beforo M'Namara interfered at all Furn'B3 had Split a bottlo over your head ?— "Yes." , • Annie Oourtenay, who deposed that she was living with Han Fon, to whom she wad not married, stated that on the night of the eighteenth she heard. Sing cry out sttnething in Chinese. Han Fon ran out of his house and she followed. She saw swnetliing -thrown at Sing, and nfterwiM'ds saw the remains of a bottle. The two strangers thero were Furniss and M'Namara. She was acquainted with them. •. : ■

• Mr. M'Grath: Is it not a common thing to find broken bottles theroP Annio Courtenay: I have never discovered tiny before. ■ ' Is there not a good; deal of drink consumed on your premises?—"No, tliero is not." Don't you. got drank yourself ?—"Yes r sometimes." \ With the 'Chinese ?—"With friends of mine, solno- of them Chinese." In answer to other questions, witness Said that she could not say that Sing had had the reputation of being a very troublesome :<nan, but she remembered that on two occasions when he lived in Haining Street lie had got into rowa with 1 whito women. Detective-Sergeant Cassellg stated that on the day following tho occurrence ho onrested Furniss, and ho' arrested M'Namara on the day after that. M'Namara admitted having thrown a bottle at Sing." Mr. M'Grath: What sort of locality is this in which the trouble occurred? ■ Dotectivo Cas sells: A combination of beer. Chinamen, prostitution, and broken windows. ... Do you know M'Namara ?—'"Yes." Do you know anything against liimP— "No: lie is a hard-working fellow, and i>racticaillly the support of his mother, a widow.": Mr. Fitzgibbon: My client (Furnissj says tluvfc he was assaulted by this Chinaman, and that one of his arms was badly bruised, Did you examine tho arm? Detective Oassells: Yes, at his invitation,. His left tricep was badly bruised. It must have been a' very violent blow, which causcd tho bruise. To Inspector Hendry: Furniss said that tho Chinaman tackled him with a 1 paling. Doctor Martin staled that 'he had attended to Sing's injuries. Theso consisted, of a deep wound on the left sido of tho lip and live or six other wounds about the head and face. The wounds could havo been oaused by tho broaking of a bottlo over the man's head, but more than one blow had been struck. Furniss and M'Namara • both pleaded not guilty and they wore committed to the Supreme Court for triaL

OTHER CASES. Charles Marshall Fyio pleaded guilty to charges of the theft at Mastortoii of a bicycle belonging to David Irving, and at Wellington of a bicycle belonging to John Mason. At tho request of the police sentence woa deferred .till April 2.. Fitzgerald Clark was remanded till April 2 on a charge of his having assaulted Edward Dohorty. On charges of insobriety, Arthur Leonard was ordered to pay ill is. (medical: expenses), and John Chambers was lined 10s.