KILLING NO MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 194, 16 August 1911, Page 5

KILLING NO MURDER.

NEGRO SHOT DEAD. HIS ASSAILANT ACQUITTED. (Received 8 a.m.) SALISBURY, August 15. At the trial at Salisbury of Lewis, a European, who shut a native dead for making indecent suggestions to his (laughters, the jury returned a verdict that the prisoner was not guilty of murder. A large crowd in Cuurt cheered the verdict. Lewis, a prominent Buluwayo citizen, resided in Salisbury. While his two young daughters were walking home recently a native youth spoke to them in an indecent manner. They reported the matter to their father, and picked out the culprit from a number of others. The father forthwith took the native to a vacant allotment near at hand, and ghot him dead. He at once surrendered Jumself to the authorities, ami was charged with murder, being released in bail of £.'looo. Public sympathy was entirely with Lewis from the start, and it was rerognised that it would be very difficult to tin 1 a jury to convict him, the general opinion being that the end justified the means. Lewis is a man of independent means, and is a lover of the wild. He has explored and prosspected thousands of miles of South African country, and fought in two Matatele insurrections, and in the Boer war.