MANSLAUGHTER ALLEGED
MINER BEFORE COURT PALMERSTON TRAGEDY (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. In the police court yesterday before Mr, 11. \V. Bundle, S.M., Richard Corrigan, aged 49, miner, appeared on a charge of manslaughter. Tho charge was preferred in respect of tho death of an elderly man, George Stuart Neish, who died on August 26 at Palmerston, as a result of a severe blow on the top of his head. The accused and another man visited the deceased on the night of the tragedy and it is alleged that all consumed liquor. Neish and Corrigan went o-utside, the latter returning alone. Neish was found near the accused’s c at.
Evidence was given by Dr. E. D’Ath, pathologist at the Dunedin Hospital, who was of the opinion that death was due to an extensive subdural haemorrhage as the result of a severe blow on: the top of the head. The fatal injury was consistent with having been caused by a- blow from one of the boots alleged to have been worn by the accused on the night in question. The accused was remanded to appear at Palmerston on Tuesday, September 29. .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 4
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191MANSLAUGHTER ALLEGED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 4
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