Foreign Guest's Alleged Assault Upon Proprietor: Trouble over "Lady Friend"
P. A. Russell was summoned at HM, Police Court last Friday, before Mr. G. W. King, for an assault upon Kao Yung-mow at 1434 North Szechuen Road.
Complainant, who said he kept boarding house, told the court that fon Monday evening defendant asked him to inform a Chinese lady friend that he was earning $450, but witness refused. Defendant thereupon made an uncomplimentary remark and hit him in the eye. First of all he threatened to KG! witness, and when he heard that two Chinese were coming to court on witness's behalf he said he would Kill them also, They were seared, and would not attend.
Defendant, who said he had resided complainant's house and ill living there, informed the court that the trouble arose through a lady who called to sec him. Kao made a nasty remark about her and, upon this being resented, he pushed his fist in wit-ress's face. "I pushed him away, defendant continued, "and immediately a Japanese woman and six Chinese jumped on me. I let in self-defence and I believe Kao was the first-one to get tt. The woman then got her arm round my neck, and one of the men cough' iold'of my legs, the seven of them pommelling me on the ground,' Defendant added that he had lived in Shanghai since 1906 without h ing any trouble at all. He gave compla'nant's house an extremely bad character, wut said that, being broke, he had been compelled to live chore, The Magistrate dismissed the ease, saying it wax one man's word against another's and complainant hud not fully proved his case,
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