MANSLAUGHTER ALLEGATION

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 16 June 1933, Page 4

MANSLAUGHTER ALLEGATION

DUNEDIN MAN FOR. TRIAL

STORY OF STRIEEr QUARREL

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, June 15. Plead!mg not guilty to a charge that on June 3 be unlawfully killed Peter Smith, therebv committing manslaughter, Arthur John Thomas Wilkinson was committed for trial. Bail was granted in one '.surety of £2OO and two of £IQO each. The inquest proceedings were taken concurrently "with the hearing; of the charge. The medical evidence was that the ill juries were done with a closed fist, death occurring as a result of an injury to ‘the head) through either striking the footpath, or the corner of a building. 'Tlie post mortem disclosed intracranial haemorrhage, resulting from a fracture of the skull.

Arthur Keddell, a motor mechanic. Said that on leaving the Crown Hotel at six o’clock someone pushed between himself and his companion, who went up to another man on the kerb, remarking: “Did you mil a —•?” The man replied, “No.’.' With that the first man struck the other a blow and the man fell into the road 1 flat on hits back, striking his head. The assailant ran away. Witness later saw Wilkinson, who said: “What would you. have done if a man had called your old father-in-law a —< —?” .

Detective Jenney said that on June 5 accused came to the detective office and) said): “I’m the man who hit Smith on .Saturday. I have come to give myself up. T didn’t know until this morning that he was dead, and so I knocked off Work at lunch time and came light here.”