HULLABALOO IN A HELL.

NZ Truth, Issue 75, 24 November 1906, Page 5

HULLABALOO IN A HELL.

GERMAN GALOOTS GRAB

But are Deservingly Dealt With.

Britons too Tough for Teuton Tear-aways.

As has before been remarked m these columns, there are a number of very undesirable German bullies m this town, and, being mostly men of great physical development, they make things very unpleasant at times, for peaceful citizens. On several occasions recently, the magistrates have had to administer punishment to members of this gang of savage aliens, for brutally assaulting other- men .who may, or may not, have incurred their displeasure ;, but m no single instance has the punishment fitted the crime. ,

Mistaken leniency of this sort has apparently satisfied these abnormally developed'ruffians that they can give rein to their innate savagery without suffering more than a fine ; and when they feel like kicking a fallen man's head off, why they just up and do it. They have no notion of what is called British fair play, but, like many Britons of similar disposition, such as Lancashire miners and Australian larrikins, the moment a. man is down they

PUT THE BOOT INTO HIM and. so doing willingly incur the risk of committing brutal murder. What is needed to check this exuberance of animal spirits, is a dose of the cat, or at least a long spell m gaol, and it is up to our, magistrates to see that this sort of crime receives its due desserts. . Most of this German gang are' wharf laborers— when they condescend towork-rbutof late some of them have been picking up a precarious living by. less laborious; , if more risky, means. . . /

Last Saturday night five very tpugh "strong men," Germans all,.;undertook to get a dry bit without'working for it, by bursting up the show at a certain two-oip school in 'the city. For a start one ruffianly "Dutchman" grabbed another man's winnings and the trouble began right there. This theft was the signal for a general attack. Another Deutscher feller swung a shovel onto the nefck of a subject of the Czar and nearly chopped his head off, while a herculean Kaizer Billite grabbed a chair and proceeded to attempt to clear the room with it. A handy man known as "Mac" dodged the chairman and 'took to the money grabber, knocking the sawdust out of the cocktail big bluffer, and finally nicking him bodily up and heaving him over the bannisters, down the stairs, on his head. Such a fall would have killed any ordinary man, but Germans of this type are extraordinary m their bull-necked strength and. imperviousneas to injury. Then Mac and his mates turned their attention to the men with the chair and shovel and the other two of the five, and walloped and banged them till they roared like wonnded bulls and

PRAYED PITEOUSLY FOR MERCY. Then they were incontinently turned out into the night, sorer, sadder, but, let it.be hoped, wiser men, ; ., This gambling hell seems to be a very Rood place for trouble-seekers 1 to go to, as rows are of frequent occurrence there; another scrap, said to be a bigger slaughtering match than even that described above, taking place there on Monday ;iright. The police seem to take none but a friendly interest m this elevating resort ; indeed it is said tfea-t, when the gentleman who runs it was pinched for conducting a similar "business' at another hell, some months back, and was allowed bail, his bondsman was actually a very well-kndwn officer of the detective police. '

But apart from that, the publiceven the gambling public— must be protected from the cowardly foreign assault and battery dealers, and if the police cannot afford that protection,' or rid the city of them, peaceable people will be driven to the "gun habit" and go "heeled."