CHRISTCHURCH TRAGEDY
THOMSON COMMITTKD FOP, TRIAL. (Unttep Phess Association.) CHRISTCHURCPI, This Day. Alexander Thomson, charged w:th manslaughter in connection w:th the death,of his mother as a consequence of a. ruptured varicose vein, was committed for trial to-day. • A new feature was introduced into the case by the evidence of the child brother of accused, and a son of the deceased. The t narge a roe* from a blow .received by the deceased during a quarrel between her son Alexander, and a man named Baxter with whom she" lived. The boy stated that Baxter told him after the death to say that Alexander gave the mother the blow and knocked her down The statement was untrue. Baxter stated in evidence that Thomson struck deceased four times, knocking her down against a box, causing the rupture of the vein.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 4 March 1914, Page 6
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