PELTED WITH SKULLS

Shannon News, 10 November 1925, Page 2

PELTED WITH SKULLS

HUMAN BONES AS WEAPONS IN OAPE BItAWL. A grim episode, in which revolver shots were tired and human bones were freely used as weapons, took place at the Neant Cabaret de la Mort. This old and famous night, resort ol Montmartre is a mysterious establishment. Visitors are welcomed in a big room where human bones, skulis, skeletons, etc., hang on walls draped in black. The room itself represents a sort of chapelle ardente, and is lighted with candles only. Liqueurs are served on coffins instead of tables, and visitors are even invited to lie down in a coffin. How Gruesome Row Began. One. of the visitors had a dispute with one of the waiters, who all wear a sort of monkish costume. Soon, there was a free fight between visitors and waiters, the latter being assaulted with sticks, found nothing' better to get hold of than leg bones from (lie walls. Armed with such human relics, they went for their assailants, while some of the latter—bottles and glasses having been broken—took skulls and other, bones and pelted the waiters with them. At last the police put tin end to this gruesome row, taking some of the most excited belligerents to the police station. Next morning the Cabaret Neant resembled a veritable battlefield with plenty of human bones among the debris covering' the floor. One Italian was struck on the head with a tibia and had to be taken, (o hospital.