MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES
PUBLICAN ACQUITTED.' (Received 1.40 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. John Maxwell "O'Shea, committed for trial on a chaTge of manslaughter, was found not guilty.—A. and N.Z. ii
As a result of -a, -distrubance outside • the United States Hotel at Carlton, a suburb of Melbourne, John Henry - Doocls, aged 42, died from the effects of a'-bullet wound in the head. licensee of the hotel, was arrested on a charge of He stated that he und another man heard .-sounds as of men attempting to" "break the back jjate. They saw one rmui climbing the ' gate .ii. Q others assisting 'hrm. O'Shea 4ired a Shot from a revolver intending ! . -to frighten them, but the man on the .gate fell off. The other men scattered j; when the police arrived and escaped.
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Northern Advocate, 22 June 1925, Page 5
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