TERRIBLE AFFRAY AT A WAKE.
At the Dublin Police-court some short time since, a man named Thomas Merrin and three women were charged with assaulting Police-sergoant Dowling with a red-hot poker, and with assaulting Constable Tompkins, and fracturing his skull with a bottle. The latter lies in the hospital in a critical state. The evidence showed that a wake was being hold on the body of a young woman. It had been kept up for three days, and the conduct of the people attending it was so bad that the police bad to interfere. On Saturday night a riot took place, and tho male prisoner, encouraged by the women, took up a red-hot poker and tried to push it into the Serjeant's eye. He failed in doing this, but burnt the serjerit's face and hands severely. Tho other prisoners assaulted the officers with bottles, and the constable wns knocked down and had his skull broken. Prisoners were remanded.
Darnel O'Connel, tho Irish orator, was applied to by a friend for bis autograph; to which he replied — "Sir, I nerer send autograph?.— Yours, Daniel O'Coonel.' 1
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2116, 30 January 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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185TERRIBLE AFFRAY AT A WAKE. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2116, 30 January 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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