The Taranaki-street Fracas.

Evening Post, Volume XLIII, Issue 61, 12 March 1892, Page 2

The Taranaki-street Fracas.

The police are still exceedingly reticent with respect to the disgraceful fracas which took place in and around a house in Tara-naki-street. late on Saturday night last, From enquiries which we haVe instituted, however, wo are enabled to give some additional particulars. The man Ole Anderson, who was found in his house ia Tory-place by Mr. John Stacey, the owner of Anderson's tenement, last Sunday night, is still in the hospital, but he has regained consciousness, and in progressing rapidly towards recovery. Anderson's alleged assailant, Michael Moore, is also progressing favourably, although he is expectorating blood and complains of both external and internal pains. Moore ie out of bed and looks but little the worse for the affray. Apart altogether from the police reports, it has transpired that the affair of last Saturday night was the result of drunkenness and jealousy. We have ascertained that two credible men, about midnight on Saturday last, hearing a horrible din in Moore's house, waited for a few minutes, and, noticing a lull in the disturbance, entered the habitation, where they found Anderson and Moore still" growling" but washing the blood from their respective injuries. Mrs. Moore was standing by in her nightdress looking at them. The men referred to, whose names we of course withhold, did their best to restore peace, and gladly took their departure from the premises, which they describe as havinc the appearance of a slaughter* house. The Moores are said to bo well known in Canterbury, and no doubt the police have instituted enquiries in that province as to their antecedents.