FIGHT IN FOUNDRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 291, 6 December 1920, Page 7

FIGHT IN FOUNDRY.

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. HARRY PRITCHARD DISCHARGED. JURY FINDS " NO BILL. , ' (By Telegraph—Press Association..! GISBORNE, this day. The Supreme Court was opened this morning before Uγ. Justice Salmond. "No bill" was returned In the case of Harry Priteiiard, charged with the manslaughter of a man named Alexander Rae Williamson in a figlit at a foundry. At the coroner's inquest evidence -wa<s given by employees at Niven's Foundry that a quarrel arose, and in a scuffle between accused and another apprentice both fell. Pritchard said: "Bom you and your cobber want a hiding."' The "coibber'' was Williamson. Williamson and P:iLcnard then fought. Pritchard was knocked down. One witness said that after the light Pritchard remarked: "I got a crack that time. I don't know whether it was the effect of Rae hitting mc or mc hitting the ground, but my head feels sore." The police gave evidence that Williamson admitted knocking Pritchard down. He said: "I got on to Pritchard for striking a boy named Charles. Prhchard shaped up and made a rush, and attempted to strike mc, but missed. I struck him a right cross on the jaw. He got up and rusiied mc, and caught mc by the thigh. The foreman came up and separated us." The coroner found the following verdict: "The deceased. Harry I'ritchard, died on September IS from cerebral pressure, the result of hemorrhage on the brain and this injury was traceable to a blow struck on the deceased's head byAlexander Williamson during a quarrel at Niven's Foundry on Friday, September 3."