TWO GRAVE CHARGES

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 185, 3 May 1933, Page 10

TWO GRAVE CHARGES

Christchurch Supreme Court WOUNDING AND DEATH \ By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Alay 2. In liis address at the opening of the Supreme Court criminal sessions, Air. Justice MacGregor said that iu the cases involving injury the facts were unusual, but they seemed to be fairly clear. The first was against Airs. Long, who was charged with tiring a revolver at a man. From the evidence it was clear that the woman had not only. Intended to do actual bodily harm, but had succeeded in doing so. The facts should present little difficulty. There were alternative charges against tlie accused, Clarence George Gibson, of manslaughter or assaulting, a man named Bank. The facts were very unusual and very unfortunate. The two men had had an argument when together in a gang on relief work. They had had. a quarrel apparently. Gibson had struck the other man, and he fell to the ground over a steep bank, dying shortly afterward. According to the pathologist’s report, death was not caused directly by the actual blow, or even by tlie fall. It seemed that death was due to tlie man having in some way twisted his neck so as to cause a diffusion of blood into the brain.