FATAL QUARREL.
DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED.
Received December 26, 10.25 a.m, ADELAIDE, Dec. 26.
The sentence of death passed on John Charles Stewart has been commuted to imprisonment for life.—Press Association.
In September last a quarrel at a railway construction camp near Copley, on the Oodnadatta line, resulted in Patrick Kelly, aged 40, being beaten into insensibility with a piece of a sleeper. Later he died. At the inquest John. Charles Stewart, aged 22, was committed for trial on a charge or murder.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 24, 28 December 1925, Page 8
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