HOW MELBOURNE LARRIKINS BEHAVE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2982, 15 January 1881, Page 4

HOW MELBOURNE LARRIKINS BEHAVE.

Another outrage by larrikins, that vies with the hotel sticking-up in Collingwood in wild lawlessness, took place in Carlton on Saturday evening, December 7. About halfpast ten a band of seven roughs went into the Newmarket Hotel, kept by Mrs Weeks, and with threats demanded bread and butter, meat and drink, which the terrified woman gave to them, when they threw it at each other. They then took complete possession of the bar, throwing themselves about, and using language of the most horrible and filthy description. They carried on for some time, helping themselves to porter, when Constables Hannon and Love appeared on the scene. Hannon saw one of the prisoners take something down and hand it to another named Peter Bohen, who was intercepted coming out of the hotel and arrested, which, when another (John Ryan alias Purcell) saw, he stood at the door of the hotel with stones in his hands, and, with oaths, swore he would dash the constable's brains out. The yellings and threats of the larrikins outside the door became frightful, and the place had to be closed until assistance was obtained from the Russell-street barracks. Ryan and another larrikin named Richard Bryant alias Pardon were shortly afterwards arrested, the other four making good their escape.