T he Ruffianly Assault at Napier
Naviek, to-day,
Two of the ringleaders in the assault on Dv Moore on Thursday night have been apprehended. The names of the men are John O'Brien and Henry Lenahan. Suspicion rested on these two individuals at first, when information had been given to the police, and Detective (! race immediately went on their trail. O'Brien was arrested in Hastings street, and Lenahan at the Harbor works. The R. M. will deal with them to-day.
The Napier Telegraph says the men had evidently been on a drunken spree in town, and as the doctor passed them they jostled him. One of them struck him, the doctor falling to the ground, and he was brut.illy kicked. Dr Moore, on regaining his feet, m.ule a bolt for his residence, but the men gave chase. He fell, and after this was subjected to further ill-treatmenl. Eventually lie succeeded in reaching hit house, and, rushing into the garden, slammed the gate after him, his assailants congregating out-
side
The doctor presented a buttered appeariwice, his left eye being swollen and diacolorcd, his lips puffed up, his nose abraded, the palm of his left hand being cut, and his right knee abraded from the scuffling on the ground, the trousers being torn open by the violence used. He also complained of pains about the body from blows and kicks. He states that from their mode of talking he considers the men were of the lumper or sailor class, and that from their accent several of them wero Irishmen.
This is not the first time that on the eve of a public holiday, or on the night of a holiday, a mob of semi-intoxicated ruffians have committed a similar outrage, and, curiously enough, in the same neighborhood. In this ease of Thursday night, it ought not to bo difficult for the police to discover the miscreantSjthough it is to be feared Dr Moore will find it difficult to identify them. However, it comes to this — if it is dangerous to go about at night, people must protect themselves, and, perhaps, the snap of a revolver may be sufficient to drive such cowardly curs like chaff before the wind. It is a scandalous thing that we have in our midst such brute beasts as will attack a doctor returning at midnight from an errand of mercy, and we look to the police to drive them out of the town. *
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5484, 27 May 1889, Page 3
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