A Mad Chinaman.

Manawatu Herald, 21 January 1899, Page 2

A Mad Chinaman.

♦ : MURDEROUS ATTACK ON A FELLOW COUNTRYMAN. ,: La3t week several Melbourne police want to a market garden to arrest a Chinese (Soon Ho) on a charge of madness. A compatriot named Ab Food was sent into the house to prepare the way. •• Presently the sound of scuffling caused another gardener to rush in, ami the screaming the pair set tip hastened the movements of r |i|r constables. When constable KanS burßfc into the room, Boon Ho's grip upon the throat of A.h Foon was rapidly FqueeziDg the life out of him ; his tongue was protruding, and lit! was black in the face. The cob.. j gables lifted the assailant bodily off j his intended victim, but so tenacious i I was his hold that the other man, I w;b also raised up, still gripped I ! by the throat. Whilst this mZ j!j bJng done the would-be murdJip was fumbling in one of his pocUte | with hia disengaged hand for a 'i ! ! knife; but before he could do any-: ij thing he was overpowered. Durirag I .! ;

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the struggle he fought like a madman, and injured Constable Holland's hand by biting it. Ib took the combined efforts of the two constables and two civilians to get him into the cab, and on . the way to the lock-up he fought with the ferocity of a tiger, smashing the cab windows. On being searched a spring bowie " knife, with a blade five inches long, and an edge as keen as a razor, was found upon him. A further search of the house disclosed that he had prepared himself for a siege. In the room adjoining where the struggle took place there wore laid out upon a table a six-chambered revolver and a box of cartridges, several carpenters' chisels, with their handles in a convenient position for rapid use, a long-handled fork and I a tomaha wk. From this room he $ could watch through the window anyone approaching the house, and would have ample time to prepare a warm reception, as the house is about 200 yards from the road. Outside the house at a spot where the man was struggling when being i arrested, another large knife with a spring which prevented it from, dosing, was found. The blade was • four inches long, and had been sharpened until the edge was keen enough to split a hair. '