MANSLAUGHTER, An unfortunate incident, attended with fatal consequences, occurred on Saturday evening in a tea garden on the Bubbling Well Road, and the sequel is nil the more serious because of the character and occupation of the prisoner who is charged with causing the death of the victim, Wong Dong-nee, a initive attendant in the resort rientiotied. Tt seems that on Saturday afternoon (4th) Charles Huckins, the second ceeded to the tea-gordon, as It is stated, constable in H.B.M.'s Consular aal, proto look for some sailors who were missing from their ships. There he fell in with a number of men from the Ardaciows, and drinks were called for and consumed. But. it seems that there was some reluctance on the part of the men to pay for the liquor, and a quarrel ensued. A matter of about_a dollar and thirty-five cents is said to have been the amount in dispute. It is alleged that Constable Huckins, who was it is supposed excited by the drink, then struck one of the Chinamen who attended on the customers, on the head with a baton. Anyway; the blow must have been a very: heavy one, for_the man was sent to the Shantung Road Hospita There he was atded to by Di les, who pronounced ported at the Central Police Station, Huckins the injury serious one. Upon this being re-Fas at once placed under arrest, and charged with assault, It was not at first believed that there was any likelihood of the blow ending fatally, but the man died at 3 o'clock on sunday morning. The other side of the story is that the bill, according to the reckoning of the attendants in the garden,"amounted to nearly six dollars, hich "Huckins and his friends thought exorbitant, and paying four dollars
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