FATAL SKYLARKING.
jIANSLAUGHTER CHARGE FAILS.
[BY tklegbaph.— press association.] CnsisTCHtmcn, Friday.
A criABCT! of manslaughter, arising out of 'the death of George Shaw, at Leithfield, on December 29, was investigated at Amberley yesterday, James Russell being the accused. , ■',''.' The evidence showed that there was ' "me skylarking in the bar of an hotel ' A Leithfield in tho course of which Russell : put Shaw down on a bench, Shaw struck Russell, who again caught Shaw by the ..'•: «eck and put him on the bench. Subse- ' quently ft lump rose on Shaw's neck, and continued to swell, and ho died as the ro- ■ ault of a lacerated vein. Russell had been Kitne hours in the bar, and had had several glasses of whisky when the trouble • arTe d; but all the witnesses were em- . pire in stating that there was nothing iLllcious in Russell's horseplay. .. , *jrtie case was dismissed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14888, 13 January 1912, Page 7
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