STABBING AFFRAY
A STEAMER'S STEWARD MURDERED. Beeeived September 25,10.20 a.m. Sydney, September 25. A youth named Thomas McLean, assistant-steward on the steamer Australasian, went on board early this morning, and quarrelled with tho steward, Thos. Coulson, and stabbed him in the breast, Coulson dying iu a few minutes. Whon arrested, McLean stated he was drunk, and that Coulson pulled him out of his bunk and nearly smothered him. He then used the knife in self-defence, not intending to kill the man.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5139, 25 September 1895, Page 2
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81STABBING AFFRAY Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5139, 25 September 1895, Page 2
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