A Night at the Chinese Lodging House

A group of highbinders bitted through the peace of Huey Long, a Chinese devotee of the faro layout, at an early hour Sunday morning, when Chin Bhong, a cook, assaulted him with a hatchet. Huey had been in the habit of tarrying before the tiger's jaws, often until the wee small hours of the morning, when he sought the bunk alley of the Chinese lodging house and made himself obstreperous in falling over tea boxes and disturbing the rest of the early rising laborers. Huey had several times been warned to desist, but failed to heed. At 1 or 2 o'clock Sunday morning, Huey came blundering in as usual to brew his midnight tea. Chin became exasperated, kicked Huey into submission, and later, when Huey again caused a disturbance, Chin hacked him alongside the nose with his little hatchet. Chin was brought before Justice Kirkland Monday morning, pleaded guilty to assault and battery, and was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail and a $100 fine. Failing to produce the amount, he is now on the county rock pile for 65 days.