A TRUCULENT TRIO.

NZ Truth, Issue 132, 28 December 1907, Page 5

A TRUCULENT TRIO.

THE HEAVENLY TWINS. Brave But Beery. Boys Bash a Bobby. A Hot Time on Lambton Quay. Young New Zealand was 'out on the ranipage on Saturday night, when twin brothers named William and Alexander Carr and a youth named Edward Leary (the trio confessed to eighteen years each) drank some lemonade and . raspberry, or smelt the cork of 'a beer bottle, and peregrinated Lambton Quay ; at 10.15 pan., bottles m a state of extreme The Dutch bravery imparted -by the ale cork - aforesaid made' the revellers fightable, and Alick, who had a quantity of skin off h|s nose, challenged a gentlemanly and inoffensive' printer named Ted rliewis to fight. to the death.' Ted and his friends weren't' having. som<e and the ' road,: but . the swipe-iu-ifliamed brawlers followed and the objectionable. Alick knocked Lewis's "hat off.. Leary showed , considerable bray-: cry by kicking the . ctowji out. of .Lewjs's hat, and . Williani Carr by, jumping around like a lunatic and 1 inviting Burns, Sullivan., ; Quires, and tie pugs generally ,to comb r , and be licked, , Recentiy-frva'nuf actured constable Archer happened along m plain ,clothes, :and' collared v Alict£ whom -tie led td a tram car. Here, however, 'the valiant courage of Learyj interposed, and \ ' HE BANGED THE BOBBY V" oix.the back of the, head tritK a bottle, stunning him for the time being, so that he -had to release his prisoner, who, however, was. subsequently pinched by peeler Quian. It was a very "sick-looking Archer who pointed out the bump on his head to 'Magistrate Riddell on Monday, and certainly the attach was a cowardly one. George Asher, who witnessed the bohhy^hashing, hit' out after Leary and collared him. U I couldn't see a man hit like that— policeman or iuot*'-' remarked Asher, and the court smiled broadly for some unexplained reason; -The twins were uniformly dealt with m the shape of a £3 fin© or fourteen days, Leary, for the more serious offence of peeler stunning was \mulcted m the sum of £5 or 21 days, aM ordered to pay 6p,' the expense of a witness. The goodnatured Lewis, who lost a hat and his dignity over the occurrence, Would claim ho /expenses.