FATAL DISTURBANCE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 71, 17 December 1919, Page 6

FATAL DISTURBANCE

'totelkkrpfVtiies from ' IX JURIES.' By Telegraph—Press ABSOciation. Auckland, December 16. \s a result ,of a disturbance which' occurred in Hie Clarendon Hotel after midnight last night, the licenseo of ho hotel was taken to tho hospital about 1 o'clock this morning sufforiwr from eonMission of the brain and a broken jaw, and two young men, Harold P. A. Stanleton" (21) anil Alexander Coppel (..0) were placed under arrest on a charge of assault. The licensee, whoso namo is Frank Brazier, subsequently died in hospital, and further developments are given by. themen indicate that Braziers ni)un was tho result of ft struggle in tho <krk in ono of the rooms of the hotel* t It; was getting on towards one o clock in tho mornin" when a constable on duty outside tho hotel was informed that there was trouble in the hotel, and on going thero he found Brazier lying unconscious in a with wound on his ligjkl. In reply °'to his inquiries the young men ■staled that they had gone to thewbed■iionis late,' and that Stapletou, after a lime was awakened by hearing somebody' in his room. He got to grips villi the intrude-.', but was getting tho ..'■..ltd of the encounter, when ho called li, his male for help, and Coppel rushed Id (lie re-cue. The result was that tho oilier man «s knocked out and was found to ho the licensee of the hotel.