DEATH OF A FOOTBALLER.
ANOTHER PLAYER ACQUITTED OF MANSLAUGHTER. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT. (Received Sept. 5, '12.15 a.m.) ADELAIDE, Sept. 5. William Harold Oliver was found not guiltv on a charge, of manslaughter. [During a. League football match at Berri on Saturday (said a message from Adelaide dated June 24), a quarrel occurred., It was alleged that "William Harold Oliver, a prominent interstate player, struck John Purcell, who later died in hospital. At the inquest the. coroner found that death was due to meningitis induced by a blow struck by Oliver.]
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 September 1925, Page 9
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