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Show ENGLISHMAN MEETS mIH MORE THAN MATCHT- 'H NEW YORK, Jan. 27. Municipal 'illH Court Justice' Corrlgan sat as arbiter ill in judgment upon a dispute between illl hvn nllirvq. nn "English officer and an iSIH American civilian. Captain Francis A. ; jl I Leonard, 36, who claimed to be an ! officer in tho English Royal Fusiieers, and to have spent three months in tho J jH trenches, is alleged to havo declared last night in a hotel cafo "to with. the Americans," and then defied any- jH one to resent his statement. ; Leonard stands 6 feet 5 inches; j "Jack" Horan, an American six-footer, I took tho Englishman on, and the cap- k tain confossed in court he thought ho k was knocked out. He was found guilty V on t charge of disorderly conduct and rined $10. He said he did not remem- ber his statement, the last thing ho recalled being some of his remarks ( about ships. |