THE CHINESE MENACE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 218, 14 March 1914, Page 5

THE CHINESE MENACE.

AN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, La3t Niglu. "There are quite a number of white women living with such men as the accused in this neighborhood," remarked Inspector Hcndrey in the Magistrate's Court to-day, referring to a case in which a Chinese named Cec Guie pleaded not guilty to a charge of assaultiag Kathleen von Cant. The woman had lived with the accused in Haining Street for about three years, and it was alleged that Gee Guie had savagely assaulted her. Inspector Hendrey told the Court that in most cases white women who lived in Wellington's Oriental quarter were brutally treated by their alien lords and masters. The present case was a sample. The unfortunate woman in court was practically a slave to Gee Guie, who lived on her ill-gotten earnings, and exercised over her his "right" as her Chinese lord to beat her.. Detective Cassells, who had noticed the woman's condition, and subsequently laid an information against accused, gave him a very bad character. He was a Chinese "bludger"—one of the lowest order of men. He frequently ill-treated von Cant. The accused admitted striking the woman, but pleaded that, being drunk at the time, he was out of his senses. The woman also gave evidence that "it was nothing." Gee Guie, she said, was very drunk. Mr P. G. A. Cooper. S.M., said he was satisfied the accused knew what he was doinsr at the time of the assault. uid imposed a fine of £!>, with an alternative of a month's imprisonment.