MAN LOSES USE OF EYE
BLOW OF FIST SUFFICIENT PECULIAR PALMERSTON N. CASE. DAMAGE BECAUSE PROTRUDING. ACCUSED ACTS IN SELF-DEFENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Palmerston N., Last Night. Reginald Henry Fielding, labourer, Otaki, was found not guilty in the Supreme Court yesterday on a charge of assault causing bodily harm. The case arose out of a scuffle in a billiard room as a result of which a Maori, Dave Nicholls, subsequently lost his left eye. The defence was that Fielding acted, in self-defence. A peculiarity of the case was that the eye, hit by a fist, suffered damage because it protruded more than normally. A doctor stated it was the first time he had known an eye to be lost through being struck by a fist, the cheekbone and forehead generally being sufficient protection.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1933, Page 9
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