TRAGEDY AT WELLINGTON.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12019, 24 March 1920, Page 5

TRAGEDY AT WELLINGTON.

Per Press Association. Wellington, March 23. At 7.30 this evening a disturbance occurred on the steamer Armagh, lying at the Glasgow wharf, as a result £of which Robert McNab, 29 years of age, storekeeper of the steamer Waikawa, was fatally injured. It appears that McNab visited the Armagh for the purpose of assisting a fireman named Collins, who had been paid off, ashore with his luggage. When McJNab arrived at the Jthe Armagh’s midships gangway, two men", who were not members of the crew, were standing on deck. It is stated one of these struck Collins, knocking him down. As Collins was getting up McNab moved forward, and immediately he was knocked down by the man who had first struck Collins. It is also stated that as McNab was lying on the deck lie was kicked three times, and it was then noticed that he made no attempt to rise and that he had been seriously injured. The police and a doctor were summoned, and on arrival the doctor found that McNab was dead. The man who is alleged to have struck McNab had walked ashore in the meantime and up to the prfesent has not been arrested. i