POLICE COURT AS RING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 31 December 1927, Page 2

POLICE COURT AS RING.

e FIVE ROUNDS. LAWYER AND INSPECTOR PUT THEM UP. NEW YORK, Dec. 20. Remarkable scenes occurred in a police court in Yuma, Arizona, when the magistrate, after listening to a police inspector and a lawyer offering to fight each other, ordered the court to be cleared and the two men to fight it out. The solicitor, Mr. T. F. Hoover, was defending three men who were charged uuth being tramps. He declared in his defence that Yuma was nothing less than a gambling hell and a distillery ior illegal liquor, and that the police knew this and lived on it. A police inspector shouted that this statement was a lie, and offered to light Hoover. Hoover replied that he was ready lor a fight, and the magistrate immediately ordered the two men , to fight it out, and suggested that the jury should witness the light, and should pronounce their verdict accord- , mgly.. , A ring was made in the court, the j sheriff was appointed referee, and after five rounds the jury decided that j the police inspector was the better ( boxer, but the lawyer’s clients should i be let off as a tribute to the solicitor’s “powers of defence.” (