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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1924, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

DUEL IN IRELAND. DUBLIN, June 21

A duel, in which one limn was killed and another seriously injured, is alleged to have taken place at Aughnnlee, near Bailioborottgli, County Cavan. There lmtl been a dispute of long standing Itetwcen Joint Clarke, a tanner, and a neighbour named Dowd concerning the ownership of a piece of bogland. and tlie encounter took place, it is stilted, on tlie disputed ground. Tlie men carried guns. Clarke was shut in the leg. He was carried to a house, where he died itt an hour.

Dowd was seriously injured, and is not expected to recover.

CHINAMAN’S COCAINE. IA)NI)()N, June 17. All Won", 29, a Chinese cook, of Little Dean-street, Soho, was sent to prison for six months at Alarlborouglistreet Police Court yesterday for being in possession of cocaine. Police-Sergeant Frederick Yates said that on Thursday night he saw Wong approach a girl and says “Aou want any snow?” Shortly afterwards they exchanged something. Later, Wong approached another girl and was arrested despite his struggles j to escape. A phial was found in his *■ clenched hand, and, at Vine-street P<>l- - Station another phial was found on him. Dr Rose, police surgeon, said the ' phial contained about lo grains of cocaine hydrochlorate. It was stated that Wong’s wife, who was present in court, was a Devonshire woman, and they had four children. Air Wilherforce, in passing sentence, said there would he a recommendation for deportation.

BANDITS’ HAUL. MEW YORK. June 10. Act ITT. in the great railway melodrama which netted a well-diseinlined company of highwaymen .a huge haul of securities and banknotes opened to-day with the issue of a Federal warrant to prevent the release of one of the four men arrested yesterday, under the name of James Mahoney. The police declare Mahoney in reality is a well-known figure in the underworld of Chicago politics, a man who for mnnv years was known as the boss of the 19th. ward.” and who is part owner of breweries stated to l* worth £2,000.000. Ala honey under his real purno is said to have made a vast fortune since the ndveilt of Prohibition by pellinp; beCD . * •

It is stated that Wayne, the bandit who at tin- time of the train robbery was fatallv wounded for disobedience to orders, has declared that his former boss is a captain of highwaymen. Altogether the police have arrestee seven men suspected of participation in the robbery. Three more arrests are likely. These arrests, they say. will in all probability, lend to the discovery of the hiding ph«e wlicrc the bandits secreted the loot.