FRACAS AT LYTTELTON.
SEAXAM STRUCK WITH A BOTTLE. Shortly before eleven o'clock last night some excitement was created on the waterfront at Lytteiton by a disturbance in which two seamen were concerned. Mj* H. Donovan, Custom-1 louse officer, went to invest gate, and ' found a man lying face downwards on bho wharf, while another hammered at his head with a bottie. Mr Donovan j pulled the aggressor away, and, with j ,he assistance of Messrs S. Gil ray and! T. Newton, night watchmen/mastered! the assai.ant. Constables Bickerdike: .md Joyce then arrived oQ the scene and conveyed the injured man, whose ;anie was ascertained to be John Sullivan, to the Casualty Ward, while the other man was taken into custody, van was attended to by Dr Newell, who found' it necessary to sew ur> a wound in his head with six stitches. Sullivan was reported' to be progiessing favourably towards recovery early this aiorn.ng. 1
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11482, 2 September 1915, Page 3
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