ASSAULT BY A CHINAMAN.
A savage assault was perpetrated on Sunday afternoon by one Chinaman upon another. They were both patients in the Hospital, and occupied adjoining beds. The younger one was able to speak a few words of English, and used to interpret the other's wants; but somehow they did not agree, but were rather hostile to each other. Just after dinner on that day, the elder got in a rage at his mate, and seizing a dish that was handy, gave him an ugly knock on the forehead, laying bare the bone, and then seizing him by the throat, attempted to strangle him. It so happened that the wardsman had left the room, and the patients were mostly unable to cope with such a fierce case but two of them managed to draw the enraged Celestial off, and keep him from again renewing the attack. Assistance was soon at hand, and the infuriated man secured and removed from the room to a more proper place. Dr Yates attended to the wounded man, and stitched up the gash in his forehead. Ah Sing, the Chinaman who perpetrated the outrage, was on Monday taken into the custody of the police, and after being examined by two medical men, who pronounced him insane, was removed to the Lunatic Asylum. He is a new arrival, and has been a patient in the Hospital ever since he came to the Province. -Otago Witness, 29/11/1873.
Ah Sing is buried in Dunedin's Southern Cemetery, having died at Seacliff Asylum after more than 30 years' incarceration there. His plot is shared by two other inmates of Seacliff and, as a pauper's grave, is unmarked.
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