BROTHERS’ TRAGIC QUARREL
DESPERATE FIGHT WITH STICKS. CHARGE OF MURDER FOLLOWS. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian Press Association. Roma (Queensland), May 21. The story of a fearful fight with sticks between brothers, resulting in the death of Frederick Purvey at Injune on February 3, was told before the circuit court by Harris Cann, an eye-wit-ness, who stated that Frederick and Charles Purvey and Robert and Arthur Laycock v ere all drunk. Arthur Laycock wanted to fight all the time. Frederick Purvey eventually knocked him down. Robert Laycock hit Charles Turvey on tile head with a stick, felling him. Frederick, who was going for the police, was intercepted by the two Laycocks and dreadfully beaten over the head with large tent pegs, and he died quickly. Arthur Laycock walked to where the other Purvey was lying, and exclaiming, "Will I kill him?” raised the stick above his head, when Cann intervened, took the stick away, and saved Charles Purvey’s life. Robert Layeock said to his broth it Arthur: "You’re the cause of all this but, as you’re a marri id man, I’ll taka all blame and Harry Cann ean look after my interests.” The Laycock brothers are charge! with murder. . The case was adjourned.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1928, Page 13
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