BESTED BY AN OLD MAN.
North End Belligerent Whipped by
Mike Crowley, Who is 80.
Mike Crowley, 80 years old, probably is the loneliest individual in the North End. He is an old soldier and deaf. He lives on a little pension and wanders about from place to place.
Yesterday afternoon Crowley was standing by a pile of wood in front of the Helping Hand Institute when Jack Coleman, under the influence of liquor and much younger in years, came along. He no sooner saw the old man than he sprang upon him, threw him back onto the wood pile and choked him until he was blue in the face. Several men standing about ran for dear life. In the fall "Old Mike," as Crowley is familiarly known, lost his cane. He regained it, however, in time to let Coleman have a couple of good blows over the head. Then Coleman ran -- for the emergency hospital.
