SERIOUS STABBING AFFRAY AT CHRISTCHURCH.
(By Telegraph.) Crbistobcboh. July 26. A ease of stabbing occurred here to-night, m whioh the perpetrator was George Brown, • lodging-b.ou.-e keeper, and tbe sufferer a young man named Thomas McMnhon. It appears that Brown had been the worse for liquor all day, and was quarrelling with McMahon m the evening. At the young man was going into the dining-room Brown rushed at him with an open penknife. McMahon knocked down hia assailant, but he rose and stabbed McMahon m the left hip. Brown was overpowered, and subtequently arrested on a charge of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3687, 27 July 1886, Page 3
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105SERIOUS STABBING AFFRAY AT CHRISTCHURCH. Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3687, 27 July 1886, Page 3
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