ALTERCATION IN TRAIN
MAN’S EAR BITTEN OFF. (Received February 19, 9.45 pnu) BRISBANE, February 19. Henry Hugh Clarke, horse-trainer, and George Peeps, a jockey, have been committed for trial on a charge of doing grievous bodily harm to Herbert McDermott, who testified that during an altercation in a railway carriage Peeps gripped his ear with his teeth and ripped it down. He heard Peeps remark: “I have bit his ear off. 1 spat it out of the window.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8359, 20 February 1913, Page 8
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78ALTERCATION IN TRAIN New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8359, 20 February 1913, Page 8
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