MURDER CHARGE.
SEQUEL TO DRUNKEN BRAWL. Auckland, January 4. At the Police Court to-day John Finnigan, aged 31, a ship’s fireman, was charged with assaulting Con. O’Keefe and causing actual bodily barm. A sensation was caused by Detective Mcllveney stating that the man alleged to have been assaulted had died in hospital. He would 1 rvithdraAV the charge of assault and substitute one of murder. Accused was remanded till tomorrow. Bail was not asked foi\ Accused and 1 deceased were firemen on the steamer Tred'enham. There was some drinking among the crew ashore on New Year’s Day and an altercation between Finnigan and O’Keefe. It was alleged that at midnight, when O’Keefe Avas asleep in his hunk, Finnigan pulled him out on the floor, and kicked him on the head and hack. Finnigan Avas pulled off O’Keefe, and the latter was put back in lids bunk unconscious. He remained so until the matter came to the knowledge of the officers next day when he was sent to the hospital. Last night an operation was performed on O’Keefe Avho did not-rally, and died at 9 o’clock this morning.
Accused denied all knowledge of the assault when arrested.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2526, 6 January 1923, Page 3
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196MURDER CHARGE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2526, 6 January 1923, Page 3
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