BOOKMAKER STABBED.
MURDER CHARGE FAILS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION- -COPYRIGHT Novi 18. ...As a sequel to a sensational stabbing affray $t the Eden Social Club, in the Tottenham Court Road district, on September' 23, Alfred Solomon) aged 31, was tried to-day for the murder of Buck Emden, a bookmaker, and with attempting to murder Michael Abelson, the club’s doorkeeper. / , Evidence was given that Blitz, alias Emden, and a man named Emmanuel quarrelled. The latter, threw beer over Blitz, who • retaliated with his glass, cutting jjEanm anuel’s head. Accused, who was a mend of Emmanuel, seized a carving knife and drove it deeply into Blitz’s head. The doorkeeper, Abelson,, intervened to- capture the knife, and was stabbed in the thigh. He is still crippled. . I A verdict of manslaughter w£s returned, and Solomon was sentenced to / three years’ imprisonment. i
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 November 1924, Page 5
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