YOUTH ADMITS STABBING MAN
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. AUCKLAND, May 15. , A "se'qucl' to an altercution in the early inorrnng' oi' ' April 20, ivhen a wharf labourer, aged 59, reeeived stab wounds on the head, l'aee and baek, hia death. .oce.urring ue.xt day, -was heard in*-the Children 's Cotirt today ivhen a youth, agcd 17, -was eharged ivith wouhding deceascd ivith intent to do grievous bodily harm. Medieal evidenee, previouslv given in the. Police Court, showed that. deeeased died from heart failure and the ductors could not St'iy that death ivaa aeeelerated by the n-ounds allegedly intlieted by aceused. A domcstic ga\e evidenee . in the Children 'a Court today that she visited dpceased'a hOme on the night of the altercation. There had been drinking bnt nobody jvaa .drunk. Ske saw a fight-' in,,the paasage betweeu aeeused and dOceased who'later threatened aoi'U3ed with a chair. Subsequently slic heard h scream.if.om the buekyard and d.ceeasecl fell Qh his- face. When the baek doox'. waa opened. she saw aceused 6^.ab deeeaSad twi'ce in .the head. Aceused pleaded guilty and was comuiitted 1 6 Ihe dupreme Court for aentence. • 1 * •" ' jp
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 May 1946, Page 2
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187YOUTH ADMITS STABBING MAN Chronicle (Levin), 17 May 1946, Page 2
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