DANCE HALL FIGHT.
One Negro was killed, two white policemen were dangerously wounded, and several other persons received slight injuries as the result of a battle eaily yesterday morning at Worth, a suburb of Chicago, between members of a Negro construction gang and some Whites. Fifty Negroes armed with revolvers and knives entered the hall where the Whites.were holding a dance and took the White women for their partners, snatching wives from the arms of their husbands. The police arrived and the Negroes began firing pistols. The police obtained reinforcements am] finally overcame them, ... : ••
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1923, Page 2
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94DANCE HALL FIGHT. Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1923, Page 2
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