Thursday, September 20, 2012
An audience composed entirely of Chinese listened attentively on Friday
afternoon, in the Wellington" Magistrate's Court, to a case in which Louis Kitt prosecuted Ow Gee on a charge of assault. Accused pleaded not guilty. It appeared (says the Post); that the trouble arose over
some correspondence in the Melbourne Chinese Times. Accused's uncle had
written to the paper in appreciative terms or the work being
accomplished in New Zealand by the Chinese Association. Complainant had
replied in language that was deemed insulting Jealously had already
existed between Kitt and Gee, as members of rival factions Incensed at
the "letter to the editor," accused made a special journey down from
Levin, and met complainant in a fruit mart, where he struck him,
bruising his eye It was also .alleged that accused still threatened
complainant; regardless of the result of the prosecution. A lot of
evidence was heard, at the conclusion of which Dr A. McArthur, S.M.,
decided that Ow. Gee must pay a fine as well as court costs (£4
14s), Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 15, 20 January 1910, Page 3
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