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Show COLORED III BEAT WHITE 11 Another cutting affray took place last evening ou. lower Twenty-fourth street, In which a white wan and four colored people were Involved. The white man came off a poor second. The latter, whoso name Is Hugh Mullarky, Is said to have been suffering suffer-ing under the Influence of a Sunday Jag and with a companion undertook an excursion down lower Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth street. Upon arriving In Tront of a houRe below Peory's mill, occupied by colored col-ored people, the pair stopped and begun be-gun uolng abusive lunguage to two colored women on tho porch. The latter retaliated, according to Mullarky, Mul-larky, In hurling a rock at him. At any rate two colored men happened along at that moment and, taking In tho situation, proceeded to give Mullarky Mul-larky the fight of his life. Rocks and flsts were lreely used and when It was over the white man possessed a badly bruised countenance and some experience. Officers Vance and Carpenter found Mullarky recoverlu from his encounter encoun-ter and had him conveyed to police headquarters where Dr. Anna Rles spent half an hour or so stitching together to-gether the various rents in hU features. fea-tures. Tho colored people wore also arrested ar-rested and were booked under the names of L W. Strothers, David Mc-Cullau, Mc-Cullau, Erma Kennedy and Ada Allan, the two women being held as witnesses only, and the two men on the charge of disturbing the peace. |
