MURPHY'S CLAIM FAILS
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WELLINGTON. Oct. 2R, The action in which the professionai boxer, Boswedl Murphy, ciaimed £25 damages for deiama--tion of character from three boxmg orncials has failed. The reserved judgment issued today py Mr. A.'M. Goulding, S.M., is in favour of the three deiendants, William 'Matthew Brosnan, a former member of the committee of the Hutt Valley Boxing Association, James Russell Simpson, chairman of the Council of the New Zealand Boxing Assoeiation, and. Alfred Stanley Parker, a member of the council of the association. "I find on the evidence that in the fifth round of the first fight of January 25 Murphy did deliberately surike Jones two biows after the gong had sounded for the end of the round, and when Murphy xnew it had sounded," says the. magistrate's judginen't. "Having come to the cohclusion that Murphy did deliberately foul Jones in the first fight, I find it impossible on the evidence to enable a conclusion that that was pre-arranged, and that Jones' story as to how it was arranged is true."
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 October 1947, Page 5
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182MURPHY'S CLAIM FAILS Chronicle (Levin), 21 October 1947, Page 5
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