BARE-FIST FIGHTERS
MAGISTRATE AS REFEREE. LONDON, October 4. Jack O’Brien, 76, last of the barefist fighters, and favourite pupil of Jem Mace, leaving Clerkenwell County Court yesterday said to Mr. Registrar Friend: “Good luck and take care of yourself. You are not a. bad referee.” The Registrar replied: “That is the kindest thing I have ever had said to me.” O’Brien was sued by his landlord for possession of his house in Ha.mil-ton-road, Highbury. The landlord’s agent started that since O’Brien was last before the Court the arrears had increased by 28s to £9/10/6. The registrar said there would be leave for the landlord to proceed, but it would be suspended while O’Brien paid the current rent, of 7/- a week and Cd a week in respect of arrears. “In your own language,” added the registrar, “it is not a knock-out. You are only taking the count.” O’Brien: “I am afraid I am beaten now.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1935, Page 8
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