ALLEGED MURDER

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2399, 8 April 1931, Page 6

ALLEGED MURDER

TAVO MEN CHARGED KVIJDISNCE ABOUT A STRUGGLE (Pea* Press Association). Timaru, April 7. FolloAving an inquest this morning touching the *:leath of Robert Nisbe t, lit;. who died in the Timaru Public Hospital at 4 a.m. yesterday as the result of an alleged assault with robhery in a motor ear in Conoor road o;i Saturday afternoon, John Fitzgerald and Thomas Cox Avere formally (barged with murder anil remanded to appear at the Magistrate’s Court .ii Wednesday April 15. THE evidence: Evidence was given at the inquest before a Justice of the Peace and a jury of six lo the effect that the debased had been seen struggling with mother man in a car coining down lie Conoor road. Ills DISPOSITIONS In his dying depositions taken on Sunday evening at the Public Hospfal, Nisbett staled that he avqs struck twice oil the jaw by FRzgvrald. but to-day I> s. King and McKenzie said that they did not no ice cuts or bruises on the (deceased's fact 4 . They i mitt oil to Inspector A. S. Bird, who bandied the case for the i*oUcc. that they had not looked for signs of an assault. the: verdict The jury, after a short retirement, oturned a verdict that the deceased died from loss of blood and shock caused by a car accident in Conoor road.