ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
AFFRAY IN AUCKLAND HOTEL.
, LICENSEE DIES OF INJURIES,
An Auckland Press Association message states that as the result of a disturbance which took place in the Clarendon Hotel at, Auckland after midnight on Tuesday the licensee (Frank Brazier) has died in the hospital from injuries and two young men H. P. A. Stapleton, 21 years of ago, and A Goppel, aged 20 years —have been placed under arrest on a charge of assault. The account given by the young men indicates that Brazier’s injury was the result of a struggle in the dark in one of the rooms of the hotel. It was getting on towards one o’clock in the morning when the constable on duty outside outside the hotel was informed that there was trouble in the hotel, and'on going there, ho found Brazier lying unconscious in the passage with _ a wound on his head. In reply to his inquiries, the young men Stated that they had gone to their bedrooms late, arid that Stapleton after a time was awakened by hearing someone in his room. He got to grips with the intruder, but was getting the worst of the encounter, when bo called to his mate for help, and Coppe] rushed to the rescue. The result was that the other man was knocked out, and was found to bo the licensee of the hotel.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1703, 17 December 1919, Page 2
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228ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1703, 17 December 1919, Page 2
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