CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 132, 5 June 1901, Page 4

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) j

TIMARU, Tuesday.

T?ie Supreme Court was occupied this af.ternoon with the case, of Jeremiah McCarthy, charged with manslaughter in 1895 by beating with a stick an old swagger, apparently halfwitted, who called at his farm, breaking his leg and collarbone, thea wheeling him away in a barrow, and leaving him on the roadside, where he died in a couple of days, and, it is alleged, McCarthy took the body in a trap further from his house, and left it again on the roadside. He wa3 charged with murder in 1895, but the grand jury threw out the bill. The principal witness at this trial isa new one, one of accused's daughters, a girl between. 12 and 13 at the time of the occurrence. This girl, now 19, states that .she saw her father beat the man with a stick, carry him from the house, throw him over a wire fence, and afterwards wheel him about a quarter of a mile to the public road. Deceased was seen on the roadside by two other young people the next day. Accused sent one of his children with food and tea for him that morning, and in the afternoon took him some himself. Next morn-, ing he shifted him. It was suggested that he • w>ns probably dead "at thi3 time. The case will probably last all day to-morrow. The peculiarity about it is that deceased was not identified except by a few people who saw him a day.or two before he reached McCarthy's. It is not known where, he came from, and it is doubtful whether the name he . gave one witness, Thorrias Sullivan, was his own name.