MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
DUNEDIN MAN ACCUSED FURTHER REMAND GRANTED [bt telegraph—OWN correspondent] DUXEDLN". Friday A further remand until June 15 was granted to-day in the case of Arthur John Thomas Wilkinson, charged that on June 3 he killed Peter Smith, thereby committing manslaughter. The inquest will also be held on June 15. Peter Smith, a relief worker, was allegedly struck by a man in front of a hotel on the afternoon of the King's Birthday, and in failing he received an injury to his head, from which he subsequently died. On the following Monday Wilkinson, a freezing works employee, read the account of Smith's death and reported to the police.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21514, 10 June 1933, Page 12
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