“MUCH PERSECUTED.”
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINE. “THOUSANDTH MAN” TO RESCUE (United Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON, January 20. Quoting Kipling’s “The Thousandth Man,” ‘‘The Daily Mail” says that but for the thousandth man, Anthony Martin Fernando, septuagenarian Australian aborigine, might still feel the world “agin him.” Hordes of children, startled by his stubbly white beard contrasting with his dark shrivelled face, often followed and mocked him. Fernando appeared in the C'lerkenwell Court for having in exasperation thrown boiling water on fellow-lodgers. He declared that though a British subject he was contemptuously treated, adding: “It is the black people who keep this country in all its greatness, yet we are despised and rejected.” A detective agreed that Fernando had been much persecuted. “The Thousandth Man,” whose name has not been disclosed, stepped from the back of the court and offered him employment in Essex, which was gratefully accepted.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 87, 22 January 1938, Page 5
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