DYING MAN FINED.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1935, Page 11

DYING MAN FINED.

INJURIES IN STREET QUARREL. CENSURE OF HIS MOTHER. “Excusable homicide,” was the verdict returned at the inquest at Camberwell on Henry Cormack, 33, otherwise Henry Doolan, stevedore, of Green , Hundred Road, Peckham. He died from the effects of a blow received in a street quarrel. He appeared at Tower Bridge Police Court the morning after the quarrel, and pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk and incapable. Fining him ss, the magistrate said that he looked very iff. ’ . The mother stated that when her son returned home on that day he knocked at the door and “fell in.” He went straight to bed, complaining of a pain in the head, and remained there until he died. She doctored him with vineDr. E. Creed, a pathologist, said it was probable that a man under the influence of drink would have no recollection of such a blow as Doolan received. The injury might have been partly caused by his own unsteadiness, for the actual blow was not very heavy. William Charles Pritchard, of Trident Street, Rotherhithe, said: “I met him near my house. and asked him what he was doing. He raised a hand to hit me, and I pushed him. I knew he was drunk.” The coroner said: “Taking the most charitable view of the mother, it seems as if she is an exceedingly ignorant and callous woman. The man was obviously very ill and was practically dying when the doctor came.” Returning their verdict, the jury® suggested that the mother should be censured for her neglect. Recalling the mother, the coroner said, “You showed callous inhumanity.”