A Champion Hit

NZ Truth, Issue 1197, 8 November 1928, Page 9

A Champion Hit

. ■ • ■ • ■ »..-.■• "I was obsessed with an idea to s * fight a Chinaman. I have always felt .hostile *to Chinamen and at the time I was excited with liquor.". This was the explanation given by a young Waihi miner, Edward Ernest Thompson, to an arresting ' constable after he had punched Ham Sing, a laundryman, causing a wound over the bridge of the nose about an inch long and a quarter of an inch . deep. The blow also fractured the small bones: of the nose and caused severe bruises round , the right ■eye..:.- ■'■; " .' . '■" '-.V;.;'^V ; ■'• ;,'•■: /Accused, who pleaded guilty to the assault, was committed to the Supreme Court at :; Auckland for ''sentence.:- -■■-^- : --'^, •^■''' ~. : ;. : .-A\ .■■■-■■