A Man Seriously Injured.

Manawatu Herald, 28 December 1893, Page 2

A Man Seriously Injured.

A disgraceful row, which is likely to end fatally, occurred outside the Eoyal Tiger Hotel, Taranalu street, on Friday night. A middle-aged man named Edward Oonghlan, who appears to have been drinking at several hotels in the town during the evening, went into this house soine time between 10 and 11 o'clock. While in there, with several others, he engaged in an altercation with a man named Peter Millar, and shortly before closing time the party were ordered to leave the hotel. Tliis they did, but it is alleged that when Ooughlan and Millar were outside they began fighting, and that the latter knocked Ooughlan down. It is further alleged that while on the ground Coughlan was kicked by Millar. At any rate, Coughlan was rendered insensible, and was conveyed to the residence of John Collier, Martin street. He remained there all thai night, and on the following morning his condition was so serious that Dr Mackin was called in, and ordered his removal to the hospital. The man gradually became worse, and, symptoms of paralysia setting in, it was considered advisable yesterday- to take .his depositions. ;, " FoplMs'p9rp^ftr^r':<7:';P.!^Ma.rMn' t ,- R.M.j attended at the hospital, and in response to questions Coughlan said he could remember very little abont the affair. He recollected drinking in the Royal Tiger Hotel and having an altercation with Millar, and laid that when he came out of the house he became un conscious, and could not say who struck him. Millar states thai he was insulted by .-Coughlaa, who assaulted him, and that he (Millar) then knocked him down and went away. In the Magistrate's Court on Tuejday morning Millar was charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on Coughlan. The case was remanded till Friday.— N Z. Times.