A FATAL "SPELLING BEE."
A miner, named James Tate, was recently committed for trial, charged with the manslaughter of Samuel Donnelly, an Irishman, at Cassop. On Saturday, February 5, the two men, with several others, were drinking together in a public bouse, and determined to have a “ spelling-bee.” A quarrel arose over the word “ Hibernian,” which the deceased misspelt. The landlord ejected the whole of the disputants from the house, and the quarrel was continued outside, in the course of which Tate seized a brick and threw it at deceased, felling him to the ground. Donnelly never afterwards spoke. A post mortem examination of the body showed that the skull had been fractured, and an abscess having formed upon the brain, resulted in death. It appears that Tate declared there was a “g ” in the word “ Hibernian,” whilst Donnelly denied that such an additional letter was wanted.
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Evening Star, Issue 4127, 19 May 1876, Page 3
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151A FATAL "SPELLING BEE." Evening Star, Issue 4127, 19 May 1876, Page 3
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