Brutal Assault in Queen-street.
A brutal assault was committed in Queenstreet this afternoon, near the Thames Hotel. 4. man named Patrick Ryan, who seems to have been wandering about with intent to strike some one, came up to an inoffensive man named Edwards, who was standing at the corner, and struck him on the head. Edwards turned round to see his assailant when Ryan again struck out, hitting Edwards a fearful blow on the eye, at once closing that organ. Ryan is said to have been concerned in the row with the police on Saturday night, but managed to keep from coming into actual collision with the constables. The escape he then had, while his associates, no more guilty than he was, suffered, should have been a warning to him ; but it appears not to have been so. A brutal and unprovoked assault such as this one is said to have been, should be visited with the utmost severity permitted by the law.
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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1684, 12 July 1875, Page 3
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163Brutal Assault in Queen-street. Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1684, 12 July 1875, Page 3
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