AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY

Evening Star, Issue 3308, 26 September 1873, Page 3

AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY

The following is related by the Inglewood Advertiser We have been informed of an almost murderous assault, attended by a singular train of circumstances leading up to the time of the assault being committed. It appears that two months ago two men living in a tenement at Burke’s Fiat had a dispute on some question, the outcome of which was that they agreed never to speak to each other, while at the same time they decided that both should live in the same place; and to prevent any further dispute as to space, a notch was cut in the middle of the fireplace, which was situated at one end of the room, and an imaginary line leading from the fireplace to the opposite end of the hut was to separate the space allotted to each man. In this way they lived for several months, as stated, neither sneaking to the other nor invading each other’s territory, and each man using only half the fireplace, until the other morning, when one of them, while combing his hair, put his head past the boundary, whereupon the other man, who was getting his breakfast, caught up a stick to repel the invasion ; but the invad r was too quick for him, and snatching away the stick from the man who was about to strike, belabored him with the weapon in such a brutal and unmerciful manner as to bieak several of the unfortunate fellow’s ribs and nearly kill him. The wounded man was brought in to the hospital, where ho received every attention.