A Brutal Affair.
(Per Press Association.) **«f Wellington, September 3. A wharf labourer named J. Holmes, a married man, was the victim of a particularly savage assault this evening. He went into the Panama Hotel with a friond, both being somewhat under the influence of liquor at the time, and n dispute occurred over the payment for drinks with another man, whose name is at present unknown.
On going outside this man knocked Holmes' legs from under him and kicked him savagely in various parts oE the body, finishing up with a blow which gashed his skull badly and reduced him to unconsciousness.
The assailant escaped iv the darkuess,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6789, 4 September 1900, Page 2
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109A Brutal Affair. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6789, 4 September 1900, Page 2
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