A TERRIBLE FIGHT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2701, 2 November 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

A TERRIBLE FIGHT.

A KjiiiiT, almost to death, took place between a blind man and a companion of his, who was paralysed, at Marseilles, the other day. Tlio two individuals lived together iu u srarret in the Kue des Surruriers, and Imd been associates for a long tittio. One Sunday evening, however, they fell out in their cups. They had ordered in a large quantity of wiuo and victuals, and after they had atn and diank to exoi'ss, the blind innn—Augier by name —who is seventy yeara old, insisted on .singing some of hia comic eongs. The vocalisation was found diengreeablo by the paralytic person—Barriera—who wanted to go to bed, and accordingly used bad language. Augier retorted in equally choice venuuulur, aud flung a bottle in the direction of his companion. Burriera next endeavoured to seize Augier whom be bit on the face and hands, and the blind man took up a knife from the table and stabbed the paralytic in five places. Strange to say, Augior was able to escape down the stairs, and before the neighbours arrived, attracted to the room by the moans of the wounded man, Iho would-be murderer had succeeded in reaching some hiding-place, from which he has not been yet unearthed by the police.