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'Brawl' Case ContinuedIn Oak Hill Police CourtHaFSuj I trilt;I ISujneOAK HILL Dunkenness and as- t sault and battery charges against g e‘ Buck Holdren of near Mossy were Rp; continued indefinitely at Oak Hili ieilt; Police Court Monday night when 1 n' tne defendant failed to appear, ac- Hi'cording to Police Judge E. N. lei*tGoode. i cnd.1 Holdren's wife was present and tv explained that her husband had e to‘gone to Charleston for a doctor’s Tolt; id-1 attention to injuries he suffered in Vl^ of | the fight outside of Club Madrid Soj n-:in Oak Hill Saturday night. The cm s. charges against Holdren were a re- E ly suit of the fight.Richard Motley, a mine foreman Co^ at Tralee, appeared at the Oak Hill City Hall along with other cm witnesses to testify in the rase. p'S.reasPRivMotley and a party had stopped Foror ui cmd-p Ma?r:1briefly for a member of the party to make a purchase at Club Madrid. While the group was waiting,^ Holdren entered the car while in- s *} toxicated and demanded that he be Ma i allowed to hitch a ride, according c°l to Police Chief William Bellew. | Ma When the Motelv oarty refused cor to accommodate Holdren and de- T•v’ manded that he leave the oar, a A fight ensued in which both men V°J ih were injured. The police were call- ^ w ed at about 10 pm and found the m3i:1 Motley car had received many, Welt; if dents and broken windows from u 0 rocks thrown by Holdren r‘ Holdren, a man of some 230 ^pounds, according to Bellew. had Cre d been injured when he was pushed Cou »r onto a piie of rocks and proceeded ?r to pelt the car with the rocks some s. of them quite large. gle Judge Goode said that Holdren rnor »r had posted bond and been released Cou d- after his arrest with instructions B'fill'id to appear Monday night. Forfeiture lejg of his bond was not accepted and B: Motley was advised to -eek resti- Rlt;cl tution for unestimated damages to Weshis oar n a maffistt alp's rourt ac- M
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Beckley Raleigh Register

Beckley, West Virginia, US

Wed, Sep 02, 1953

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