A Gambler's Quarrel.
1 ?•- FREE FIGHT IN A PUBLICHOUSE. TWO OF .^ELEttfEfIEN.TS (united press association.") ,;- AUOKIiANDf AugUSt 9. ? 5 Shortly after midnight a fracas occurred ■^"tj|fe fttakes%e»re Holiel 1% Wyndham-sjjiipe.t,' ft; appears, that .H}f()»tiak'Alkinß^ £?rjHj<^tyhcb, f a noted boxer, went iuto a room m which four men named James, David, ißttd Robert/Roche, and\Eho3. Hanlan 1 were Vlayitig Wdk" brothers Rx*ch© asljed,. the newcomers why thevs lh^si»e MtQ t||V frss *ft»Vi <&&*§ •them Kicjced I^ncfy m tJ]B eye,s. A mele'p. ensued^,' and when' the polipe Hyr}\p<s tyuc^xWS lyiiig senseless witlj a contused wflijnd qq t\\e temple : the floov . waQ . gp^ttpd,. w|th plots of bioqfl, and t'jie J #sVal : ovgans «>f Jjje ~ Rocjje b^othevs muc^ damaged. The police, afttfr a aevew stmgg)e, ntteviftA tour of the caM players and: MoCarthy, the barnian, for, assau] ting , Lynch. Lynch wag removed tq the, hospital, where he now lies m a prer •- xjalioua condition. :t.i i : >- ■,-. < >i^j Terence Lynch, the victim of the fracas m the Spakespeare Hotel, has recovered consciousness at the hospital , and i"; progressing : fa Yourably. , .JJis ■assajilantsi were ramnnded for a, week.. Three of them, the brothers RoQ^e, .got., a month's imprisonment' for assailing '4])e police ou their arrest.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 219, 11 August 1884, Page 2
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197A Gambler's Quarrel. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 219, 11 August 1884, Page 2
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