An aged amah was charged at the Mixed Court, before Messrs. Kuan and Blackburn, with having assaulted a Mrs. Cohen.
It appears, from the evidence given by Mrs. Cohen, that the defendant took her chair away while she (witness) walked to another part of the Public Gardens on Saturday. Upon her return Mrs. Cohen saw the amah in the chait and asked why she had taken it. Witness then asked the amah to get up, whereupon the latter struck her on the arm. Mrs. Solomon, witness's mother, then came up and asked defendant why she struck her daughter. The amah then gave Mrs. Solomon blow on the head, kicked her on the knee, dug her nails into Mrs. Solomon's flesh and broke her wrist watch. Mrs. Solomon was now in hospital.
Mr. Riddle and Mr. Edwin Martin deposed that they saw two women striking the amah with a hook and they wished to see the latter win because it was an injustice that she should have been treated as she was being treated then. Mrs. Solomon and the plaintiff asked a constable to take the defendant to the police station but did not wish her to take her charge along with her, a small child. The amah refused. to go unless the child went with her.
The Court, in dismissing defendant, said that they gave her the benefit of the doubt and remarked that the whole trouble was another case of a storm in a teapot.
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