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Show Spaniards in police : COURT The case in which Raymond Min-togul, Min-togul, Francisco Apezloglnos. Jose i.alznni and Antonio Obdlabal weie charged with beating one Francisco Gomez on Decembor 25, cumo up In police court and, after an hour of translated testimony, appeared to be about as madly mixed as at the start. Tho court room was crowded with friends ot tho defendants ami much disorder occurred in consequencbr It seems that a crowd of Spaniards gathered gath-ered at a rooming house on Wall avenue av-enue late Christmas night to celebrate cele-brate the holiday with beer and othor liquid refreshments and during ' the festivities Gomez became boisterous and wns ordered to leave. It Is alleged al-leged that Gomez then Insulted some one and fled rrom the house pursued by some half dozen of the Inmates, who, overtaking him, proceeded to gic him a beating, which wns interrupted inter-rupted by the appearance of Officer Murphy. During the giving or the testimony the proprietor of the rooming house Insisted on breaking in on the story told by the various parties and finallv was fined $1(5 and removed from tho court. The stories told bv the four Spaniards Span-iards alleged to have done tho fighting fight-ing were rather vague and of a contradictory con-tradictory nature except that all agieed that Galzani was the most aggressive ag-gressive and did most of the beating The caso was carried over until tomorrow to-morrow to allow a further investigation. investiga-tion. Two facts, however, were clearly clear-ly established for all agreed that there had been much beer consumed an 1 the face of Gomez indicated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there had been a fight -oo |