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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 17, 1919
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text details a courtroom scene with witnesses and a hotel setting. Names such as MacDomwell and D'Arcy appear alongside a back-parlor encounter and an exchanged card. The scuffed piece references conversations among three roommates and mentions a writing sample shown to Deion A and Flanagan, but many proper nouns and actions are unclear due to garbled text.
The testimony recounts a violent incident involving Ryan Anti Lan Ma and others with Flanagan recalling an assault near a yard. Dr. Clarke described a severed artery, facial injuries, and medical treatment, while witnesses discussed provocation and the sequence of events at a hotel confrontation.
A garbled page cites a courtroom exchange involving Judge Metawhna Dit and a defendant named Meslahoy Wwam. The dialogue touches on insults, alcohol, and alleged lewd remarks during a park writing session, with references to a code of conduct and moral standards. The fragment mentions McMuina and Flagneae as witnesses and discusses discretion and legality in prosecutorial handling.
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