FATAL STREET FIGHT
QUARREL BETWEEN MAORIS TWO BROTHERS REMANDED (P.A.r AUCKLAND, Nov. 24. Two Maoris, Phillip Matthews, aged 23, and his brother, Henry Matthews, aged 35, were charged in the Police Court to-day with fighting with an unknown person in Nelson street on Saturday evening. Philip Matthews was further charged with assaulting on the same date Dave Repia so as to cause actual bodily harm. Requesting a remand in both cases, the police said the men were mixed up in a fight, and shortly afterwards another man was found injured on the foothpath and subsequently died. The magistrate (Mr F. H. Levien) remanded both men to December 1 and allowed bail. In the case of Phillip Matthews, bail was fixed at one surety of self £250 and another of a similar amount.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24773, 25 November 1941, Page 8
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