PORANGAHAU TRAGEDY
CORONER'S VERDICT 11-HE33 ASSOCIATION TELEQaAiI.) WAIPUKURAU, May 26. The coroncx - , Dr. H. W. M. Kendall,' returned an open verdict in accordance with the medical evidence at the inquest into the death of Leo Patrick McKee, known as John Williams, who died at Porangahau on March 11. The coroner said that the knife wounds were received in a struggle with another man named Harry Capewell, Williams, as shown in the evidence, being the aggressor. In the Supreme Court at Napier Capewell was acquitted on a manslaughter charge.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21175, 28 May 1934, Page 12
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