FALL FROM BUILDING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 251, 4 August 1937, Page 5

FALL FROM BUILDING.

WOMAN KILLS A MAN. CORONER’S VIEW OF FATALITY. (United Press Association —Copyright.! (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, August 3. The coroner at Manchester (Mr Oddie), recording a verdict of suicide in connection with the death of Mrs War bur ton, drew a distinction between constructive murder and constructive manslaughter, which i 9 interesting nowadays because it is not so < strictly interpreted as formerly, inasmuch as a motorist killing a person by driving dangerously is usually punished for dangerdus driving without being charged with manslaughter. , Mr Oddie expressed the opinion that a verdict of murder would be improper in the present case though the olcl legal doctrine established that when a person committing a felony unintentionally killed another he was guilty of constructive murder.- Similarly a person committing a misdemeanour unintentionally causing another’s death was guilty of constructive manslaughter; •but since Mrs Warburton was not fully in possession of her faculties when she cofnmitted suicide she was not guilty of felonious intent. For that reason the death of Donald Black was accidental, and a verdict was returned accordingly. Mrs Warburton’s husband disclosed (that his wife previously attempted to 'commit suicide. A cablegram published on Saturday stated: Having left the building after claiming some letters from the Young Men’s Christian Association, Birmingham, a visitor, Mr Donald Black, aged 30, diecTln hospital as a result of Mrs Mary Warburton, aged 65, falling on him from a window in the fourth floor of a building. The woman was taken to hospital moaning, “Oh; the poor hoy.” She succumbed to her injuries.