FEROCIOUS ATTACK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20365, 20 September 1929, Page 11

FEROCIOUS ATTACK.

THIEF IN CHINESE LAUNDRY.

OWNER'S SKULL FRACTURED.

Staggering into Yarraville police station recently with his eyes blackened, his face a * mass of bruises, and with blond freely flowing from his scalp, says a Melbourne newspuper, a Chinese named Charlie Goon. 50 years, told tbe police, of a most brutal assault that had been made upon him. Goon said that at 9 a.m. be was working in Ids laundry about 50 yards from the police station, whan he heard a slight noise in his bedroom at the rear of the shop. Peeping cautiously behind th& door he saw a man searching his clothes. Tbe intruder looked up. and seeing that Goon was watching his movements, he at once rushed at the Chinaman. Picking up an opium-smoking pipe about two feet long, with a metal bowl, the intruder with this weapon struck Goon several times on the face. Then his eye chanced tv fall on a tomahawk, and picking up 'this more formidable weapon, be made another rigorous attack on Goon, striking him several severe blows-on the head. Before he finished with him the unfortunate Chinese was unconscious. When

he recovered he found that, Ms. assailant lutd left the place, and had taken £2 in money and also a gold watch chain. The police took Goon to a hospital, where it was found that his skull had bean fractured. He was not able to communicate to the police anything in the way cf useful knowledge. In the first place he could sneak English' only very imperfectly at the" best, of times. But after the two doses of a violent hammering te which be had been subjected., his feelings, were far too deep for utterance in any language.