WELLINGTON STABBING AFFRAY.
TWO MORE ARRESTS MADE. BY TKLKGBAI'H —I'IIESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, June 2. Two more seaman have been arested in connection with the stabbing affray on the steamer Jessie Burns on Saturday night. They have been remanded until Thursday. There was a serious affray on Saturday night on the Jessie Burns, a cargo steamer now at the Railway Wharf, Wellington. As a result Athol Zani, a fireman, now lies in the Hospital suffering from eleven knife wounds, some of which are alleged to have penetrated to his lungs. It is alleged that Zani was in his bunk, and that a fellow fireman namtd Joseph Zimmerman, aged 22 yeisrs, used offensive language to him. Zani, it is state', got up, left the i'oc'sle, and was followed by Zimmormnnii, who challenged him to light with knives. The allegation is that Zimmermnmi procured two knives from the bos'uo's bunk*, and followed Zani to the place where he had left him, and attacked him; that Zani fought, and that ,th* combatants were separated by the officers, who found Zani suffering from knife wounds as stated.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9105, 3 June 1908, Page 5
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190WELLINGTON STABBING AFFRAY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9105, 3 June 1908, Page 5
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