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Chinese. The woman comes backwards and forwards to my camp. I
will not swear the woman is not a prostitute...
(Sturt Recorder, 16 July 1897:2)
Further insight comes from another newspaper item, this time from
January 1898.
Milparinka Police Court
Before Mr. John Ducat, PM,
Charlie Bow was charged with assaulting Hung Loy with intent to do
grievous bodily harm.
Senior Constable Wood, being sworn, said "I know the accused
now before the court. This morning, about 1.30, from information
received, I went to Lum Hop's, one of the Chinese gardeners
residing about one and a half miles from the town. I saw the
accused there; I said to him "Is your name Charlie Bow?" he replied
"yes" I then said "Do you know Hung Loy?" he said "Yes" I then said
"Have you been quarrelling with him?" he said "Only a bit of a row;"
I said "he tells me you assaulted him with a tommyhawk; he said "no
I did not." I then called the complainant up to the accused and said
"Is this the man who assaulted you?" he said "yes, that's him" I then
said can you find the tommyhawk. He then, in the presence of the
accused, Lum Hop, and myself, proceeded to search for it; it was
found by Lum Hop, and handed to me, still in the presence of the
accused. I produce the tommyhawk; it appears to have been
recently ground, and has bloodstains upon it, which appears to me
to be quite fresh. I then said to Hung Loy "are you sure this is the
tommyhawk that he, meaning accused, assaulted you with?" He
said "yes" and described how the assault took place. He was
bleeding from a wound on the small finger of the left hand; he was
also bleeding when he came to me at the police station at half past
one o'clock. I then asked complainant how he, accused, came to
assault, he said "he asked me for money he said I owed him; I told
him I would give it to him bye-and-bye; he then picked up the
tommyhawk and struck at my head; I put up my hand and received
the blow on my little finger, several others of my countrymen caught
hold of his hands" I then arrested the accused and brought him to
the lockup, and made the charges.
An interpreter was called to ascertain if the accused had any
questions to ask the last witness, and the reply was "no". The
constable then asked the interpreter if in his opinion the accused
could speak and understand English and he replied "yes he could".
Hung Loy, gardener, being sworn by extinguishing a matCh, said he
resided at Lum Hop's garden; I know the accused; he is the man I
laid the information against this morning for assaulting me. Last
night about 12 o'clock I was sitting on a stool at Lum Hop's garden;