UKRAINIAN BRAWL
WEDDING FEAST IN CANADA ENDS FATALLY REVIVAL OF FAMILY FEUD. INJURED MAN CRAWLS HOME TO DIE. STURGIS (Saskatchewan), November 7. A Ukrainian wedding feast in which John Balbink was fatally stabbed, thirty guests were wounded, a house was wrecked and wedding presents were used as weapons, is the subject of investigation by the police. Jo Jin Noroski returned from Eastern Canada with his bride, Julia Licenco and fifty members of the two families and their friends assembled to celebrate the occasion. During a dance a political argument revived a family feud. Women leaped from the windows in panic.
Balbinjc crawled two miles to his home, named his assailant and then expired.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1938, Page 6
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113UKRAINIAN BRAWL Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1938, Page 6
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