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THE MURDER OF FAIRHEAD BY SIN
CHE CHI
This was a terribly savage and brutal
crime. It seems that George Fairhead,
who was described by various witnesses at
the Robourne trial as a very harmless,
good-natured man, was located at an out-
station of the Mill Stream Station, in the
North District. Apparently without any
motive the prisoner attacked Fairhead in
his hut and literally hacked him to death
with a tomahawk and butcher's knife. He
first Struck him on the back of the neck
with the heavier weapon, and then repeat-
edly stabbed him in the back. The only
excuse that the man offered for his crime was
that Fairhead "hammered" him (a state-
ment contradicted by other witnesses), and
that Fairhead also tried to kill him first.
Dr. Hicks, the Resident Medical Officer in
charge of Roebourne stated that the pri-
soner had been under his observation at
the Roebourne Gaol for three or four
months, and that he had never noticed any
symptoms of insanity about him, but an-
other Chinaman who had known Sin Cho
Chi in China as a boy said he was very
quarrelsome and wanted to fight every-
body, that "sometimes he would be a very
good boy and sometimes he would want to
fight all the time."
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