THE BLENHEIM TRAGEDY
DISGRACEFUL DRINKING CUSTOMS. POLICE SERGEANT AND CORONER QUARREL. Press Association. BLENHEIM, September 5. The jury found there was no evidence to show how the fire which destroyed the houso in which Thos. Dunkley was burned to death on Saturday night originated. The evidence disclosed disgraceful drinking customs. There was a fiorco passage-nt-*irms during the inquest between Police Sergeant Mason and Coroner ScottSmitli. The latter said the way witnesses were being shielded in examination amounted to a public scandal. The sergeant retorted that he had never hoard such cross-examiiuj- ~ tion by a presiding official in bis life. The Coroner threatened to commit the Sergeant for contempt of court, and ruled from the Evidence Act, 1905, that witnesses can bo required to answer questions that might incriminate them. The Sergeant held otherwise. The breeze ended by the Coroner asking the Sergeant to continue his examination.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2178, 6 September 1907, Page 3
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146THE BLENHEIM TRAGEDY Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2178, 6 September 1907, Page 3
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