Savage Assault on a Detective.
+ |Bt Tslegrafh.J [united press association.] Dunedin, 17th January. At the Police Court, Archibald Blue was sentenced to three months' hard labour for assaulting Detective M'Grath. The detective had gone to arrest a son of the accused on a charge of larceny, when Bine, sen., who appeared to he under the influence of drink and very excited, closed with the detective, and, having a tomahawk handed him, struck the detective a tap on the forehead. The detective with two blows of the handcuffs did Blue considerable injury, and assistance coming he was arrested.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 15, 18 January 1889, Page 2
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97Savage Assault on a Detective. Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 15, 18 January 1889, Page 2
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