Three pretty women of Cincinnati, Ohio, have a scrapping match in “The Abbey” with no serious results. 

“The Abbey,” on Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, O., was the scene of a pretty little fight on night recently, between three well-known women named Gertie Roberts, a McFarland street landlady; May St. Clair and Bessie Anderson. The tree women were under the influence of liquor and it was not long before they began to fight among themselves. Bessie called May a hard name and in return was biffed in the eye and knocked down. At this point Gertie Roberts sailed in and went for May and received a good thumping for her trouble. After the women had been separated it was found that Bessie’s eyes were the color of shoe-blacking, and that Gertie’s nose had gone around to attend a tea party with her back hair, while the victorious May was all right. All are now said to be training for the ring.

Reprinted from National Police Gazette, September 28, 1889.