SUPREME COURT
AUCKLAND CRIMINAL SESSIONS. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 9. The attempted murder of a Maori seamaa named Jack Murphy, at Dargaville on February 22, was alleged against two brothers named Walter Ross and Sydney Ross in the Supreme Court to-day. There were alternative charges of having clone bodily harm to Murphy, and of having caused such bodily harm to him that had he died as the result they would have been guilty of manslaughter. It was alleged that Murphy waa attacked by the accused and thrown from the wharf into the harbour. The jury found accused not guilty of attempted murder, but guilty ou the second and third counts. Both accused were sentenced to imprisonment for two years with hard labour.
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Southland Times, Issue 18845, 10 June 1920, Page 5
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124SUPREME COURT Southland Times, Issue 18845, 10 June 1920, Page 5
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