The Sydney corrivtpn.-Mei'.t o.f \hDunedia liuies stales i.iu,i a ivi.il-ki,.:,.,, Queensland Judge (Mr Jiisiicf Siiandi had a remarkable experience in Tow.iw villc, where he had gone to preside at the sittings of the Supreme Const. He had a Japanese servant named iiasa-jiro, whose behaviour receutly had bccutuv ,eurious and eccentric. So the judge dismissed him. The Japanese, however, refused to leave his chambertt. A Japanese merchant, Mr liigatihi. vvw° called in, and remonstrated with !u> countryman, but jMautjiru. still refusal to leave, so the judge decided, to sleep at an hotel, and Mr Higahhi left. Then Slasajiio attacked him suddenly. He tripped the judge, threw kiin heav'ily, and beat his head ui, the flow):. The* judge fought vigorously. The ckuniur was beard by Mr Cl«ti-cy tlie HiipremiCourt caretaker, and he ran in and closed with Masajiro, who behaved like a wild animal, and bit Clancy's hand. Clancy's fiitecn-ycar-old boy joined in, and hit Masajiro on the head with a stick, and Masajiro flrnl. The judge, bleeding i'teelv from the lioad, and suffering considerably from shock, was sent to a hospital, but his condition was not serious. The appanutly demented Japanese rciurned later ■. the ,ji dge's chambers, and was firrestcu. ' Progranda cures Corns qmckl^
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1917, Page 4
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