CHARGE OF MURDER
VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER, LONDON, June 12. William Ward has been convicted of manslaughter, and has been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. William M'Namara. alias William Wart), 39, labourer, was remanded at Acton on April 29, charged with the murder of Ernest Nixey Smith on October 23, 1903, at High road, Chiswick. Mr Smith, at Shepherd's Bush, remonstrated with a man. for abusing a woman, and it was stated at the inquest that the man followed him to Chiswick, where later Mr Smith was found lying in the street with a hole in his temple, apparently caused by the ferrule of an umbrella. He died in hospital. The accused was arrested at Perth, Western Australia, last January, and Detective In>spector Knell, after a 20,000 mile journey to Australia and back, returned to London with the accused on April 27. Inspector Knell said that after identification at the gaol at Frem&rrtle the accused, was told the charge. Ho replied. " I shall give you no trouble." On April *, while the steamship Otway was lying off Colombo, the accused made a statement which was signed by him. When charged at Chiswick he made no reply.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3040, 19 June 1912, Page 63
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194CHARGE OF MURDER Otago Witness, Issue 3040, 19 June 1912, Page 63
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