NOT A POLICEMAN.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 479, 25 February 1881, Page 3

NOT A POLICEMAN.

The other night two rough-looking customers got into n quarrel -about 12:30 o'clock on the corner of a Galveston_Btreet. They were both had men, who ordinarily did not know what fear was, but they knew each other's prmvese, and hence they weie unwilling to. bring on the conflict. They were the two hardest cases Island. They walked arniiYd c; cli other like two lions, gritting their tcth, with their fi*t* tldublctV tip. and uuitUiing c< rea. A man in dark" clothing wasstnu-ling near the lamp-post, quietly watching the pro gross of events "1£ it-.wasii't forfc'iat polii-ein.in there IM have y/Jur heart's blood," said one. edging up closer U> his antagonist and gritting his teeth. '%..

••You'rllpp would be closed in death now if it w s not for that fame policeman," said the other, glaring like a tiger. I am no policeman ; I am just looking on," said the spectator The two gladiators drew closer to the man to satisfy themselves thnt they could rend each other, u,ui.uo'e*ter; The man smiled and paid, ''Sail in gentleman, I won't bur: you."

Having satisfied themselves that the spectator wns a harmless man, one of the gladiators reached out from the shoulder and sent the amazed third party reeling into the street.

"Hit him agin, Jimmy," yelled the second ruffian, planting a well directed kick that lifted him off the ground.

The spectator ran like a turkey, and finally made his escape, closely pursued by the two deadly enemies. When explaining to his friends how he came by the black eye, the victim tells a very different story, and deprecating the insufiiciency of the Galveston police, says he shall regret to the last day of lii'h life that he did not have the egal authority to arrest tho ruffains, and take them both to jail.