BLIND AND DESPAIRING
YOUNG CHINESE FOUND WITH WOUND IN HEAD From Our Own Correspondent NEW PLYMOUTH, Today. A young Chinese fruiterer, James Bing, was found lying in liis shop at Patea on Tuesday v evening semi-con-scious and with a bullet-wound in his head. Bing, who is 19. suffered from defective sight and on Monday evening became quite blind. He shut lip his shop and went to bed, hoping to be better in the morning. In the morning, however, there was no improvement and he felt that life was not worth living. As a result of his wound he remained unconscious throughout the day and it was not till a fishmonger, S. Bartlett, and a Chinese laundryman, Joe Tong, came to the shop at 5.30 p.m. that he was found.
The shop was still locked, but they knocked repeatedly and Bing, who then half-conscious, managed to drag himself to the door and open it. He told them what had happened. They noticed that a clock in the shop had a bullet through it and had stopped at 7.30 o’clock.
Bing was taken to hospital and an operation to remove the bullet from his temple was performed yesterday. His condition af f er the operation, was
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 784, 3 October 1929, Page 11
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