A FATAL BLOW.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14140, 17 July 1916, Page 4

A FATAL BLOW.

[United P^ess Association.]

Christchurch, July 16. A tragic affair occurred in Cashel street near the Cafe de Paris Hotel yesterday afternoon, resulting in the daatb. of Frederick William Allen, a labourer, aged 42, residing in Madras street.

Allen and Private Michael Carey (Sixteenth Reinforcements, on final leave) were engaged in a heated argument, Carey apparently suggesting that Allen was a shirker. " ThcT-apshot was that Carey hit Allen three frihes in the face. Allen did not retaliate, and stood with his hands in his pockets looking at his assailant. A constable went up to tho soldier for the purpose of arresting him, hut before he could do so-Carey dealt Allen another smashmo: blow on tho iaw. :inr? knocked him down like a log. The back of Allen's head struck the asphalt with tremendous force, rendering him unconscious. Allen died in the Hospital early thi* morning.

At the tima of.the assault troth men were perfectly sober. Allen was a big inavy man.

Carey is under arrest