A FATAL BLOW
TRAGIC AFFAIR IN CHRISTCHURCH jLABOTTRER. KNOCKED DOWK BT A f - SOLDIER. ! 'e By Telegraph—Press 'Association. ' . Christchurch, July l(i. A tragic affuir, in Cashel Street, near tho Cafo de Paris Hotel, .yesterday afternoon, resulted in the death ot Frederick William Allen, a labourer, aged 42, residing in Madras Street. Allen and Private Michael Carey, of the Sixteenth Reinforcements, on final leave, | -were ongaged in a heated argument, Carey up, parently suggesting 'that Allen was a shirker. The upshot was that Carey hit Allen three times in the face.' Allen did not retaliate, but stood with his hands in his pookets looking at his assailant. A constable went up to the soldier for the purposo of arresting him, but before lie could do so Carey dealt Allen another smashing blow on the jaw, and knocked him down like a log, tho back of his head striking the asphalt with tremendous force, and rendering him unconscious. ' ' Allen died in the Hospital early this morning. At the time of the as?a;ilt both men were perfectly sober. Alloii was a big, heavy man. | Carey is now under arrest
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2825, 17 July 1916, Page 6
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186A FATAL BLOW Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2825, 17 July 1916, Page 6
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