PUGILISTIC ENCOUNTER,

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1926, Page 6

PUGILISTIC ENCOUNTER,

IN RAILWAY CARRIAGE, f,FOUGHT THEIR BATTLES O'ER AGAIN. NAMES AND NATIONALITIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) \i; STRATFORD, this day. v The train between Stratford and Whangamomona is frequently the scene i of pugilistic encounters. On April 24 last among the passengers were Freder- : ick Ernest Kuhtz, Bart. Lloyd O'Brien and one Sherlock. Apparently Sherlock announced that all England ! got out of the war she got from Ireland.Kuhtz, who fought for Britain in the! war, resented the statement, and an] argument started. Probably a man] bearing such a name as found* it more or less impossible to remain l neutral, so he entered the argument,? announcing that he had fought for Ger- ' many. This was too much for Kuhtz,! and words gave way to actual hostili- ] ties, in which O'Brien and Kuhtz took' part. Sherlock taking up the position \ of spectator on the carriage platform,' It was more a light than a and ended by Kuhtz putting a Nelson on O'Brien and winding him. ) That was the story told by several! witnesses to Mr. Tate, the on Monday, when the police proceeded? against O'Brien and Kuhtz. OUriea: was fined £2 and costs £1 10/, and thf' I charge against Kuhtz was dismissed o, payment of costs, 13/. • _*_?