GUILTY OF ASSAULT
RELIEF WORKERS' QUARREL
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CIIFJSTCHUKCH, May 5. A verdict of not guilty of manslaughter, but guilty of assault, was returned by the jury in the Supreme Court today against Clarence George Gibson, who had pleaded not guilty to the charge t,li at oil April 18 lie unlawfully killed George Julian Christopher Bank, andon tho second count that ho assaulted Bunk. Tho cvidenco. .was similar to that given in the lowor Court. Gibson and Bank were employed on relief works on Cashinero Hills. Gibson called Bank a "loafer" and Bank retorted by calling Mm'a "scab." , Thcro was a slight conflict of evidence as to what occurred. Then the weight of the testimony was that Gibson struck Bank and that Bank fell. Tho injuries received by Bank in tho fall, or in attempting' to save himself from falling, proved fatal. !
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 15
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