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L'*T'n» Times’’ service.J A MIR HER- CHARGE. LONDON, July 28. Arising from the murder of l’lummer by a gang on April last, ten are being tried for murder at the l.eed.s Assizes. The doors are guarded. the police fearing disturbances by friends of the prisoners. It is expected one hundred witnesses will be called. The Crown's evidence shows that Plummer was warned that the gang were coming, hut he said:—“l xhaHs have to stick it.” When attacked by six. Plummer cried out:—“I will take you one by one.” Fowler, one of tho accused, retoified: —"You .done our kid! We’re going to do you!” Plummer knocked. Fowler down. The gang then battered Plummer, using rubber truncheons and other weapons. The prosecution pointed out that tho jury had a difficult task in deciding whose hand dealt the fatal bayonet blow in the stomach. BRITISH PENSIONS PROBLEM. LONDON, July 28. The House of Lords has read for the second time the Widows and Orphans and Old Age Pensions Bill. laird Salisbury announced that a Departmental Committee would lie appointed to consider the case of the contributors [ who may he desirous of migrating within the Empire. The matter was a most complicated one.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1925, Page 2
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