YOUNG BOY’S DEATH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 287, 5 December 1933, Page 6

YOUNG BOY’S DEATH

SKEWER PIERCES BRAIN j I FIGHT WITH ANOTHER LAD | I *' ~~ ' Following an inquiry at Alorce, New South Wales, recently into Ihe death; of Lytton O’Neill aged 12. 'the magis-j trate found that the boy died from in-, juries feloniously inflicted by Hilton George Wyatt, a boy of JO years. Be I committced Wyatt for trial on a charge of feloniously slaying O’Neill. Dr. R. J. Hunter. Government Medical Officer, said he found a wound in O'Neill’s head, passing through the eyejlid and puncturing the membrane of the brain. The cause of death was an abscess of the brain. Only a little force [ would be required to make the wound with a sharp skewer. 1 Cecil Edward Harris said he saw a quarrel between Wyatt and O’NeillBoth boys were fighting, and it seemed I hat Wyatt stabbed O’Neill with a skewer. Ernest Albert Nell said that O’Neill was brought into his shop after the. accident. and he pulled the skewer from the lad’s eye. John Alullens said O’Neill spoke first, and hit Wyatt. 5 Hilton George Wyatt, aged JO. said > he picked up the skewer in Nell’s I butchery, and later was outside the , shop when O’Neill nished at him and i hit. him. He put his hand up to his 1 forehead, holding the skewer with the j point outwards, and O'Neill ran into i it. O’Neill was always fighting him, and he was frightened of O’Neill. i