A FATAL FIGHT.
YOUNG MAN KILLED.
(Per Press Association.)
Wellington, yesterday.
Au inquest was held to-day into the oircumstanoes surrounding the death of Basil Graham, aged 24 years, who died at Manners Btreet police station on Saturday night, after having been concerned in a street brawl a short time before. The evidence went to show that several young men and youths of whom deceased was one, had a disturbance in Cuba street which attrao'ed a crowd of pooplo. All of them had been drinking. Blows wero exchanged but the identity of tbe person who struok Graham and knocked him down was not established. Statements were made by witnesses that it was some stranger, though they said they would be able to identify him. The modioal testi mony was that death resulted from hemorrhage of the brain, caused by a blow under the jaw, and by deceased striking his head against the' footpath when knocked down, The jury found that death was caused through a blow delivered by some person unknown, or by some fall consequent oa such a blow.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1630, 19 December 1905, Page 2
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