SINGULAR CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.
The Rev. J. W. Hills, a minister connected with the London Missionary Society, and settled at Apia, has been charged with manslaughter under peculiar circumstances. According to the particulars which have reached the Rev. J. P. Sutherland it seems that a native woman was ill after confinement. The natives came to Mr. Hill for some medicine. As she got worse a letter was written by a clerk of Mr. Ruge to bo deslivered to Dr. Funk, a German doctor there. This letter was delivered to Mr. Hills, but, being in German, its import was not understood, and it got laid aside, and was subsequently lost altogether. Afterwards a special messenger was despatched to Dr. Funk, who saw the woman and prescribed for her, but she died. The charge against Mr. Hills was that ho conduced to the woman's death by detaining the letter, and afterwards a second charge was preferred against him of stealing the letter. After a trial, lasting from 23rd February to 3rd March, he was acquitted by DeputyCommissioner Wilson.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9011, 26 March 1888, Page 5
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176SINGULAR CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9011, 26 March 1888, Page 5
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