DEATH OF CONSTABLE
FAILURE OF CHARGE
MANSLAUGHTER COUNT
(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN. last night
The trial of John Edward McElroy. on five charges, including one of manslaughter, arising out of a struggle at the Dunedin police station, when the accused was arrested for drunkenness on Christmas Day, was concluded in the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Kennedy. The happenings were alleged to have been responsible for the death of Constable James Butler, who assisted to place McElroy in a cell. After a retirement of four hours the jury returned a verdict of not guilty on the major charge and two other charges, and guilty of assaulting Constable Butler so as to cause actual bodily harm, and resisting a sergeant and the other constables in the execution of their duty.
The jury added a rider that the actual bodily harm inflicted on Constable Butler was in no way connected with his death. McElroy was remanded until to-morrow for sentence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19555, 10 February 1938, Page 3
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