BOXING DAY TRAGEDY.
SON WHO RESENTED FATHER'S REMARK TO HIS MOTHER. The story nf the Boxing Day tragedy at SI, Bishops Road, Cambridge Heath, which led to the detention of three men, two of whom were charged w-ith manslaughter at Old Street, was told ata the inquest. The dead man is Stephen Crosby (42). who lived with his wife. They wore joined for the Christmas holidays by their son, Stephen Thomas Crosby, a naval stoker. Hose Crosby, the widow, said that she was out with her son and two of his friends on Boxing Night when her hus- j band met (hem and called her a "terrible; When they returned home her son name." Her son resented It. I When they returned home her son entered first, nnd she heard a scuffle. Eventually she went in and found her husband lying on the floor with the others standing round him. t In tho room ln which the struggle took place there was a pair of seisßors. I Mrs. Crosby said her husband used to
llltro.-it her. , The police-surgeon Raid that two instruwnundn. One might have been a pair of A verdict of manslnugbtcr was returned against Stephen Crosby, Jun., and also ngninst Edward Johuson, but under great provocation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 32, 7 February 1925, Page 19
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208BOXING DAY TRAGEDY. Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 32, 7 February 1925, Page 19
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