Regulating ihe Drink Traffic.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6626, 19 February 1900, Page 3

Regulating the Drink Traffic.

DRINKING GAMBLING AND

FIGHTING.

AN ARREST FOR MURDER

(Per Press Association,; Greymouth, February 17. This morning at about 1.30 o row oe- J curred at the Union Hotel over a game of dice. Six persons were playing. It appears the disputants, Carew and W. Martin, called each other liars, and adjourned to the street to settle the matter with their fists. Both were the worse of liquor, though not helplessly drunk. After a few minutes' fighting, Carew said he had enough, and the contestants separated. Carew afterwards went out of the hotel, feeling unwell, and as he did not return within half an hour his mates went to look for him. They found him in an unconscious condition a couple of hundred yards away. He was prostrate on the footpath. Medical aid was immediately sent for, but Carew did not regain consciousness, and died about nine o'clock. He was a single man, a miner, and a native of Ireland, aged about thirty. At the inquest to-day medical evidence was given to the effect that death was caused by a fracture of the skull, but that it was improbable it could have been due to a blow from a fist, it being likely that the fracture took place through deceased's head coming in contact with the pavement or stones on the road. The jury returned a verdict that deceased met his death through fracture of the skull, but there was not sufficient evidence to say what was the cause. The police have arrested Martin and charged him with murder. He was ad- ! mitted to Jbail in two sureties of £50 and ' himself In £100. The case comes on again (HjfTuesday. ~ „ -!.->&-*