GRIM RAZOR DUEL
BLOOD-SPATTERED MEN FIGHJ IN ROOM GHASTLY INJURIES
(United P.A. -— By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. 11 a.m. NEWCASTLE, To-day. Two seafaring men, William McQuirk, aged 29, and John McEwen, 37. were found by the police in a room, bearing ghastly injuries, the marks of which they will carry all their lives. The police say that a woman watched a deadly razor duel in which the men were wounded. Blood streamed from the slashes on their heads and bodies. Both victims refused to give the police -any information. Twenty-one stitches were inserted in a wound in McQuirk’s face, and McEw en’s nostril was either bitten or cut clean off. The men were covered from head to foot with blood, which also bespattered the room. Both are in a serious condition.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 560, 12 January 1929, Page 1
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130GRIM RAZOR DUEL Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 560, 12 January 1929, Page 1
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