N.Z. TELEGRAMS.
Serious Waterside Affray.
INJURED MAN DIES,
A WELLINGTON SENSATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. At 7.30 o'clock this evening a disturbance occurred on the steamer Armagh, lying at Glasgow Wharf, as the result of which Robert McNab, twenty nine years of age and storekeeper of the steamer Waikawa "was fatally injured. It appears that 'McNab visited the Armagh for the purpose of assisting a fireman named Collins, who had been paid off, ashore with nis luggage. When McNab arrived at the head of the Armagh's midships gangway, two men," who were not members of the crew, were standing on the deck. It is stated that one of these men struck Collins and knocked him down. Aa Collins was getting up McNab moved forward, and immediately he was knocked down by the man who had first struck Collins. It is also stated that as McNab was lying on the deck he was kicked threq, times. It was then noticed that he made no attempt to rise,, and that he had been seriously injured. The and a doctor were summoned, and on their arrival the doctor found that McNab was dead. The man who is alleged to have struck McNab walked ashore in the meantime, and up to the present has not been arrested.
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Wairarapa Age, 24 March 1920, Page 5
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215N.Z. TELEGRAMS. Wairarapa Age, 24 March 1920, Page 5
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