TWO INQUESTS CONCLUDED
murder and manslaughter
RECENT TRAGEDIES RECALLED.
CORONER ANNOUNCES VERDICTS.
Coroner’s vcrdicU on the deaths connected with the recent wqvietionH of Alexander Townsend for wife murder and Abraham Wally Mahomed Salaman ■ for manslaughter were delivered at New Plymouth on Saturday by Mr. R, W. Tale, S.M. He found that Mrs. Cora Alice. Towns- i end died on September 16 as the result of a mechanical injury to the spinal ' cord inflicted on her neck with a knife by Alexander Townsend. The finding regarding the death of ' Lyall Gordon Christie, aged (U, on August 2 was that it occurred while he was in a diabetic coma consequent on tlie withdrawal of insulin. When the verdict on Christie’s death was about to be given Mr. A. A. Bennett said he desired to be heard for a moment, but Mr. Tate said he could not hear addresses in matters of this kind. They were hardly necessary and certainly undesirable. . . . ’ Mr. Bennett said that was all he wanted to know. If he was refused a hearing he had nothing more to say. .The evidence at both inquests were taken in conjunction with the lower court proceedings for. committal for trial.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1930, Page 6
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