MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
SEQUEL TO AUCKLAND FIGHT PRISONER'S RETURN ORDERED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 9.45 p.m.) SYDNEY. Aug. 12. The Central Court has ordered the man McDonald, who was charged in Sydney with having committed manslaughter in New Zealand, to be returned to Auckland. A message from Sydney on August 4 said a man named Allen McDonald, alias Colin McDonald, aged 28, was charged at the Central Court, Sydney, with having committed manslaughter in New Zealand in August, 1925. The Crown prosecutor said McDonald was arrested at Queanbeyan, on a provisional warrant from New Zealand. It was alleged that he had knocked down Andrew Soutter, a fireman and labourer, aged about 60, in Victoria Street, Auckland Soutter had died in hospital five hours later.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19405, 13 August 1926, Page 11
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125MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19405, 13 August 1926, Page 11
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