CLUB SENSATION.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 20 November 1924, Page 7

CLUB SENSATION.

AFTERMATH OF STABBING AFFRAY.

VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER,

By f.’tibie— Pross Assofunllon—Copyright. Austiiliaii and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.5 p.m., November 19.) LONDON, Nov. 19.

At tlie trial of Alfred Solomon, charged with stabbing Buck Eiiden, at the Eden Social Club, in Tottenham Court road district, evidence was given that Blitz (alias Eiiden) and Emmanuel quarrelled. The latter threw beer ovet Blitz, who retaliated with liis glass, cutting Emmanuel’s head ■Acidised, wild, was a frieiid of Emmanuel, seized a carving knife, and drove it deeply into Blitz's head. A doorkeeper liamed Abeisoii interveiled to Capture the knife rind was stabbed in the thigh. . He is still crippled. A verdict of manslaughter was returned, and feolomon wfts sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.

[Enden wits plnyiiig cards in the (•liib oil September 22, -when two brothers ha hied Solomoh, who are reported to-be meinbers of the notorious Sabihi gang, demanded the paymeht cf racing bfets. A dispute ovfer tlie amoiiiib followed, and rt free-tight began. Abelson intervened, and ivas stabbed in tlie thigh, while tlie gang followed Enden into tlie street. where he also was stabbed; a,rid died before lie readied the hospital.]

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