SENSATIONAL OCCURRENCE.
A BOY KILLED BY HIS BROTHER.
CHARGE OF • MANSLAUGHTER.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
TIMARU, this day
An inquest Avas held ab Peel Forest today as to the death of a boy named Peter Finlayson, aged 11. The evidence showed that he and .his brother Robert, a»e 13, quarrelled about who would fetch in some cows. The mother turned Robert out of the house. He returned with a piece of iron which he was swinging; about, and it left Iris hand, liit ±*eter on the head, and, penetrating' the skull, killed him instantly. Robert said the iron slipped and he only meant to frighten Peter. The jury found a verdict of manslaughter, and the boy was arrested.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 17, 21 January 1898, Page 8
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