The Menthorn Fatal Assault Case.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 8, 8 December 1884, Page 3

The Menthorn Fatal Assault Case.

■;- ; Vt./V.::'. •■ ";!.'■,.. .'-..'■ '.■.'.:. ; j i>i ) PARTICULARS. , : VERDICT OP -WILFUL MURDER. v - > ,(inaT»D PBBBSjAS«BOOtI.TIpN. l j ! -..,.;■: " ■■'? ;•: .. '• I Dunemn, Dec. 6. „,' . The medical evidence, showed that , deajh sh/ad resumed \ from bleeding from " bleeding from the knife .wounds. In cross-examination by Mr Dennistbn, Dr McChaw said that if proper appliances had beert at hand an, .hour, after the occurrence; the man's life could probably have b.een,sav > cd.. , lyhite and. Fitzgerald were boarders with 1 Meldrun. Evidence . .wA given by Mrs Meldrun and some >' nawias. as.Uk) hearing remarks made during the, -previous quarrel by one or j other oftMe three men that they would j ldjjt Mpidrjun, and jif they had ; » a. knife tiiey would cut .his-throat. They were i ir «ll m, drink. - ; . Fitzgerald waa known on 'the' works as'Garfet't. .It is hot exactly hW v wie'' : ro < w' began, "but it seems J -'i&'at'aWoman named Burke was m Cut'- \ > ram 'a day tprtwo before', and complained ..- that (Meldrumhad cut ;her on,' the headi, j.^and w^shgard,^ Biy that;9he would' get "some of the boys to go for Meldjun." Fitzgerald made theremark during the Monday evening, wfien a number of, men ; : were' ppLymg cardsnn Meldrun's, that he • ' was Irish arid meant' to have a row. ' ,' \ .■:■:.'.]• li:-.: ■::■'(- ■/.! — •■ Dec. 7. ; The result o^thp inquest on the ; ,Men-t 'vthbtn affair wsis; a verdici; bf wilfiil mur-; ' tier .agaiiist^ the three Hieni Word' has been received by the police of Fitzgerald haying; - been! . seen , at a place called "Clark's .Flat. fHe left Menthorn with the avowed intention of going to Dun- 1 edin to tell the police all about the affair "and givehmis(3n ? up,but evidently changed his mind ori the road.