A DISGRACEFUL SCENE.
ON A MELBOURNE FOOTBALL FIELD. Mei.bocrxe, July 27. A disgraceful nielee took place on Saturday afternoon at a football match at Collingwood between the local team and one from North Melbourne. When play ceased, the crowd rushed the ground, seizing Roberts, the field umpire, and dragged him about by the hair of his head, while others kicked him and beat him with sticks. A party of players and the police had great difficulty in rescuing him from the angry mob. Several women took a prominent part in the row, and renewed it when Roberts reached the pavillion, but with th« assistance of a strong body of police he escaped in a cab.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 78, 27 July 1896, Page 3
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115A DISGRACEFUL SCENE. Hastings Standard, Issue 78, 27 July 1896, Page 3
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