EFFECTS OF A QUARREL.
A very serious affair took place in the neighborhood of the North Prentice Mine, near Rutherglen, on a Sunday eveniug recently. John Hawkins had been spending the evening with five Italians, and all were more or lobs under the influence of liquor. A quarrel occurred between Hawkins and one of the men. Hot wordß having beeu exchanged, Hawkins ran away, with the rest of the party in hot pursuit. They chased him into a house owned by a man named Direen, who was at home with his family. When the Italians saw he had taken refuge, they armed themselves with heavy props, and tried to batter the place to pieces. Seeing that they could not attain their aim of forcing the refugee to leave, they set fire to the place, which was burnt to the ground iu a very few minutes. Direen, who had a revolver in the house, fired five shots into the air, hoping to frighten the men away, but to no purpose. Hawkins, when he saw the place in flames, caught one of the children in his arms and ran outside, but he was no sooner out of the burning building than his pursuers were after him again, and inflicted two severe wounds with a stiletto, one stabbing him in the chest and auother in the arm. All the men were brought up at Rutherglen in oustody, and remanded for a week,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2833, 25 June 1895, Page 3
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239EFFECTS OF A QUARREL. Temuka Leader, Issue 2833, 25 June 1895, Page 3
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