ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 153, 26 December 1918, Page 5

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER

SERHHTS CHARGE AGAINST. %

SON.

A 1 man named Thomas Albright ap-4 .peered before Mr. f. V. Fiasser, S.Sl.',. ; in the Magistrate's Court to-day on a^ , charge of having, on the 4th inst.^ assaulted Grace Albright, hia mother, ml ! such a manner as to cause her dentlu i Mrs. Albright resided with her husbaml. j at 87, Wright-street. .On the eveningv j o! the 4th inst. accused, who is a driver,- ■;. and who lives at 5, Howard-street, wentf* to his mother's home for tea. It ia alleged that he complained about the food,'. and that, following on a, had strnck his -mother about the head an<# / body. Mrs. Albright, who was sijttjj ' years of age, fell down, and Dr. Par- , kins, who was sent for, ordered hen removal to the hospital, where she die* on Monday afternoon. When Albright came before the Court,, Acting Sab-Inspector Emerson stated* that the man was too deaf to Jiear the charge read, and the charge-sheet wwn therefore handed to him. He read it,, and made no answer. , The poMco asked for a remand until 3rd January. It was understood thai! accused wanted to ask for bail.

Mr. Frazer : "Have the police made sufficient inquiries to show whether the assaflt-.;all^«d,.to_liscye; been v.;camniittecß. was of such a. nature, dpart from theetaie of the mother's health, thai" iC would affect the granting of bail?"' Acting Sub-Inspector Emerson replied! that the assault was rather a brutal! one, and no doubt it led to the death ofi the person assaulted. The'accused wasdrunk a.l the time, and the assault was really the cause of her death.

His Worship : "Was-the assault U'' brutal assault,, apart 'from the state dl 1 the mother's health?"

\ Acting Sub-Inspector Emerson i "W«>" don'i kriow all the particulars." His Worship;: "Then I won't grantt*} bail until I do know."