MELBOURNE AFFRAYS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8, 10 September 1913, Page 5

MELBOURNE AFFRAYS.

TOMAHAWK v. REVOLVER.

CHINESE AND TWO BOYS.

Melbourne. August fll

A Chinese, two youths, some stolon fruit, a knife, a tomahawk, and two revolvers played a part ia an affray that took place late on Saturday aitoi'iioon in Toorak.

A Chinese vegetable hawker, who was doing his round. Kit his cart in

Mathoura road. Returning, he saw two youths making off with some fruit. He gave chase, but the boys were too fleet for him. Later, he met them wheeling their bicycles. The Chinese, brandishing' a knife and a tomahawk, rushed at them, seized hold of the bicycles, and would no let go. Both youths drew revolvers and threatened him. The Chinese stepped hack and flourishing the tomahawk, made at them again. One of the youths fired at him. The Chinese made a dash with the tomahawk, and with the back of it cut the youth a glancing blow on the head. The other youth fired. The Oriental turned to him, and the. firs 4 youth ran away with his bicycle. The man held on to the bicycle of the second youth who, struggling, got away. He tell on the footpath, and the Chinese, who had started in pin suit tumbled over the bicycle, and gripping hold of it. would not let it go. Then was a struggle. The Chinese attempt ed to get at the youth with the tomahawk. The youth fired in the scuffle, and the Chinese threw* the bicycle over a fence.

The shots startled the neighborhood The district is not thickly populated. A woman, attracted by the noise, rang up the police, and the Chinese was taken to the Prince Alfred Hospital, where it was found that his intestine; had .been perforated, and that he was suffering also from a wound in one of his logs. At midnight, Eollo Johnson (19) living with his mother at Prahran, and Tames Wensley (17) were arrested. Wensley arrived from England onh 16 months ago.

SAVSD BY A WATCH.

TWO MEN AND A WOMAN. Melbourne, August 31. A remarkable shooting affray occur ii:e,d:at,a house in Leicester-street, Carl. ton, on Saturday evening, and as ; result, Henry Wilson was arrested oi is!e:iarge of shooting with an.bent t< murder James O'Connell, while . tbt latter'was removed to the hospital rt'here it. was discovered that a watcl had deflected the bullet, his injurio; being of a slight nature. When the police arrived at ' th< hou >e, O'Connell was lying on the foot path in front,' and the police wiert informed that lie was dead. Tin man's sister c.uue out of the house aoon after and the police then satis .ied themselves that O'Connell wa' alive.

Eileen O'Oonnell, the injured man'.' lister, informed the police that thi shooting was the direct outcome of i. quarrel between herself and Henry Wilson.

O'Connell had just got through r doo.-, and pulled it after him a fev, feet, when a weapon was discharged. The bullet passed through the. panel 'of the too:-, up the sleeve to the <l bow of O'CoitKell'-s coat, finally striking a watch in his pocket, and flattening out against it. A painful bruise the size and shape of tin watch was made on O'Connell's side and O'Connell called out that he was shot, and fell to the floor. O'Connell was allowed to leave the hospital to-day. Wilson will appear I before the City Court.