ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8933, 27 June 1905, Page 2

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER.

OUTCOME OF A FATAL FIGHT.

[PRISS ASSOOIATIOK.] AUCKLAND, Jnnc-26. John Henry Fairhall was charged to-day with manslaughter by _ killing ArthurHenry TJurfoot in a fight on May 22. Frederick Freeman said deceased offeree! to fight Vairhall for £2, and the two hail ' a rough-and-tuinblo -fight during -dufner >v hour.. Both- fell" twice, ih^Taffair lasting 1""—1 ""— two or three minutes. Oii^ Burfoot say»rig; " Ji« h«ul had cnouglrthuy"sliook, : -liandsr — Medical evidence was to the effect 'that ' a post-mortem revealed laceration o/. i>e brain substance, but no signs of ej'oessiveviolence, ' ~ The Magistrate said tliat~ frora a legal point of view every blow struck in that tight was unlawful; the fatf., that tliey had agreed to fight was no jw stification foi so doing. If he was doajj'jig with it as nn ordinary assault' case I*^ would djsnm' it. for ho felt convinced. *;hat tho h'ghtWa* a fair one. Tho case vras adjourned until this morning in order to give Mr Reed, accused's solicitor, the~»pportunity 3 n«w that one evidence » criminal charge, could be sustained.