CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.
(pee PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
Christchurch, Oct 29
At Kaiapoi to-day, Carl Frist was committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter of his wife. The medical evidence was to the effect that the bruises on the body were such as would be caused by blows from a strap, and that death was due to internal injuries, which could have been caused by a kick, or possibly by the woman falling on some projecting substance. Two sons of the accused gave evidence as to their father’s ill-treatment to their step-mother. They staled that he had beaten her with a heavy piece of leather, a kicking strap, and that he had struck her with his hand, knocking her down, the woman falling against the fender. Both stated their father told them to say that he had not beat her with the kickingstrap, but with the strap which he wore round his waist.
The police, after a search for the strap found it between the lining and the outer wall of the house.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 October 1901, Page 4
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172CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 October 1901, Page 4
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