FATAL BRAWL

Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1931, Page 6

FATAL BRAWL

fN AUCKLAND SUBURB Telegraph —Per Press Association) AUCKLAND, De c . 20. Following a brawl in Atkinson Avenue,' at Otahuhu at 6.30 p.m., on Saturday Frederick Lovelock, aged 42, of Hutton Street, Otahuhu, was killed. The affair took place at the back of an hotel where a number of men had been drinking. A quarrel is said to have arisen as the men were leaving the hotel, and blows were alleged to have been struck. Lovelock was hit and fell, and his head is believed to have struck ft stone, death being almost instantaneous. Lovelock was a married man with .four children, and was foreman at ■R. and W. Hellaby’s Meat Works at Westfield. No arrest had been made up to this afternoon. An inquest was opened and adjourned. AN ARREST MADE. AUCKLAND, Dec. 21. In. consequene of an affray at Otahuhu on Saturday in which Frederick Lovelock met hjs death, the police arrested Andrew Inglis Carswell, aged 25, ,a stoker, on a charge of manslaughter. Carswell appeared at the Police Court and was remanded to appear on December 28th. The bail was fixed at £SOO and two sureties of £250.