LIKELY STIGMA

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 11

LIKELY STIGMA

ECHO OF TRAGEDY

PROTEST BY COUNSEL

(By. Telegraph—Press Association.) ' '• ■-.'■'■ . "DUNEDIN; This Day. - ■ Declaring, that his client would carry ■ a stigma for the remainder of his life if the verdict prepared by the Coroner were recorded, Mr. C. J. L. White, who i successfully defended Hugh Urquhart ■ Neil Gunn on a charge of murder last j week, strongly protested against that verdict when the Coroner, Mr. Dixon, • sat this morning to complete the in- - quest on Villiam Beatty. . ; The Coroner intimated that his pro- • posed verdict was that death was the result of a severe blow to the .skull : received during an altercation with \ Gunn. . ' ] Mr. "White protested that even though Gunn had been acquitted such a ver- \ diet would stigmatise him for life.-He . objected to limitation of the alterca- [ tion to one person when at the trial other possibilities were put forward. . The Coroner finally consented to use , the word? "altercation with Gunn and others." '