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ASSAULT CASE 'ENDS.

SUMMONS AGAINST SUB-

EDITOR DISMISSED. - .

The assault summons brought by Mak Hung, an office-boy of the China Maul against Mr. W. A. A Donaldon, sub-editor, was cap cluded before Major C. Willson on Saturday morning at the Central Police Court,.

Mr. Donaldson was rocalled for cross-examination by Mr. Leo D'Almada:

Mr. Donaldson, you remember, In the course of your evidence the other day, you stated that com- plainant first assaulted you7-Cer- Latuly.

You and you "pushed him Jalang," now Can you roconcile that opening statement with your case that it war the boy who Arst assaulted you?-He struck me at the stair-enge,

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this regrettable affair would never have been brought to your His Worship interposed, and in netice had it been left entirely to referring to his notes, recalled the complainant, He returned to his job about an hour after the that Mr. Donaldson said the boy incident and everything since the on being reprimanded, turned round and abruptly pushed him has gone along very well. I (Mr. Donaldson) over to his deck, should like to say that it seems to

+ Calls at Osanbinnen. Mr. D'Almada: There is one mo that the whole matter has been greatly exaggerated. I had

2-You can change only one LIVERPOOL ather question. Mr. Donaldson:

"OLAUQUS" Why didn't you report the matter ample opportunities of effecting a letter at a time."

so-called settlement, and certainly

*DYCLOPS" S-You must have a complete Mr. Donaldson: Because Mr. would have done so had I been the word, of common usage, for cach Burnett had already heard of it,gressor. But, as I have inform-jump. Slang words and abbrevia

ed your Worship, I hate come tions don't count. to a great deal of publicity simply changed. forward here and exposed myself

One solution is printed on an- because 1 feel it would be doing

ge-other page. myself an injury should 1 quiesce in such a settlement as was asked.

to Mr. Burnett?

and because I did not wish the boy to be dismissed, as in nine

I

cases out of ten he would Le.

It is not because you thought it was below your dignity to do яu?---No.

Complainant's Expenses, · Mr. Wai Po-chung was recalled at the instance of the defendant.

Mr. Donaldson: Mr. Wal, you remember this unfortunate affair took place on a Saturday after noon. On the following Monday afternoon, you came up to me in the compositors' room and you said to me, "What was this all

about?"

Witness: Yes.

Well, I said I did not wish to discuss the matter with you. had not discussed it even with my

4-The order of letters. cannot be

there was a sort of a Dempsey. "As I said in the witness box on Tunney tournament in the office, oath, the complainant, after I had but it appears to me to have been reprimanded him and told him that more like a storm in a tea-cup. would have to get another boy. If Mr. Donaldson had not taken struck at me, apparently thinking an aggressive attitude in telling that he was going to be dismissed. complainant to sit down, the After that I pushed him along the matter would not have grown to room, and I said, about that time, the serious proportions it did. that I would report him to the There in the evidence of the com- taipan on Monday. He then plainant who said that while he struck me, as I have said, and con- was carrying out his ordinary sequently I had no alternative but duties, sharpening pencils, Mr. to defend myself, as any English- Donaldson caught hold of him by man would. Your Worship must the noruff of the neck and pushed | see that I did go after very great him down to his sent...

have to say."

KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART wife, not even with Mr. Burnett provocation. I think that is all 1

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As your Worship knows, Chinese! Well, you then said: "He In

Complainant's Case. going to sue you?"-I told you Mr. D'Almada said: The facts mentality is such, that if this boy had actually assaulted Mr. Donald- that Sang Kee and the entire are so fresh in your Worship's members of the Chinese sinif had mind, and, in view of the fact that son, the boy (and I am speaking from experience with Chinese of to me and asked me to at the actual assault, there were subscribe towards paying for the no witnesses at all, it would life that class) would huve picked up buy's legal expenses and for get-within your Worship's duties to the knife with which he was | ling a solieftor.

say to yourself, 'Well, which side sharpening the pencils and would Mr. Wal, have you gone to the is telling the truth? I have no have gone for Mr. Donaldson with extent of paying solicitor's ex-doubt that in a case like this, Itits and the consequences would penses in this matter?

is your general rule to dispel from then have been more serious, Witness, smilingly: That mat- your mind altogether whether one believe your Worship will agree ter has not been settled yet. man is a coplie in a humble posi with me that complainant has

Mr. Donaldson: Did you not tion on the staff and the other is proyed his case."

aub-editor of the paper. Your Wor- Bay B07

ship will have an unbiased mind; In this case you would decide in Is it not the case, Mr. Wat, that such a manner as would please you know of this affair on Satur- both parties.

Witness: I said so, and I was willing to do so."

Mr. D'Almada suggested that, in the alternative, na there was no witness to the actual assault, both parties should be bound over.

His Worship: Mr. Donaldson,

on the fact that, although having

day afternoon?-Only to the extent His Worship: Can you suggest in his remarks to me, laid stress of what the boy told me. I was how I can please both parties?

Mr. D'Almada: what Bot then very clear as to had occurred.

You knew a good lot from the boy's viewpoint? The impression I had was that everything had been fixed up.

That fact

very

I am suggest-many opportunities of doing so, ing that it is difficult for your he did not try to effect any settle Worship to please both parties. Iment, but preferred to bring the a suggesting that it is not usual matter in Court. for a Magistrate to have a case of weighed in my mind throughout this nature, a case which I regret this case, and I think is On Monday afternoon you want should have been brought before significant. As regards complain- his own witness. Mr. ed to know all about it. You pre- the Court. Your Worship will ant, even tended not to know anything remember that Mr. Donaldson, in Wai, said ho found him very

asked about it. You

witness-box, showed how irritating. all the me about it did not pretend,

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assaulted him, and made gestures with his arms as if he were a pugilist himself. He asked com- This closed the evidence.

plainant whether he had learned Addressing the Magistrate, Mr. the pugilistic art, which is very Donaldson said: "In the first unlikely. One would think, from place, I am right in saying that Mr. Donaldson's remarks, that

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"As to the evidence of an assnult in the case, as Mr. D'Almada has said, there is only one, man's word against another. Owing to the conflicting nature of the evidence, feel that I can do nothing else than dismiss the summonu.

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