THE HABBOR FATALITY.
CAPTAIN GUILTY OF CARELESSNESS. ARRESTED FOR MANSLAUGHTER (Press Association.) s DUNEDIN, May G. The adjourned inquest on the body of tho boy Alexander Edgar MePliee was resumed at three o’clock this afternoon. It was decided that it was unnecessary to take further evidence, tbe facts having been brought out at the Magistrate’s inquiry into the collision. The verdict was as follows: “That deceased met his death by drowning in Otago Harbor on April 18th, through being thrown out of the launch Matakana, which came into collision with the steamship Lady Roberts, such collision being caused by-the careless handling of tho launch by her owner, Joseph Coddoi, particularly so by liis shifting the tiller at a critical moment, thus taking his boat right across the bows of tlie Lady Roberts, and we really think him guilty of manslaughter.” Consequent on the finding of the jury, Joseph Coddoi, owner of the Matakana, was arrested this afternoon on a charge of manslaughter. Accused was brought before the Court and remanded for a week. Bail was allowed accused in his own recognisances of £IOO and two sureties of £SO each.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2184, 7 May 1908, Page 2
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