NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 4 August 1917, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

LANCE-CORPORAL FRICKLETON V.C. A WE!& .OAST MINER. fe % —- WIfMJNGTON, this day. Lance-Corporal Samuel Frickleton, the New Zealander who has been awarded the Victoria Cross, is a West Coast miner, whose mother resides at Blackball. He is 26 years of age, and served with the Fifth Reinforcements and re-enlisted and left with the Fifteenth Reinforcements, and was wounded at Messines. Four brothers have been in the Army; one was killed and another wounded. The Defence Minister yesterday sent a telegram congratulating Mrs. Frickleton on the honour gained by her son. CHARGED WITH MURDER. BOYS AGED 8 AND 10. THAMES, August 3. Two boys concerned in the recent drowning of Irene Quinn, a little girl aged six, were charged with murder "before Mr. Page, S.M., to-day. The accused are Ernest Claude Gibbons (aged eight) and Richard Claude Reihana (aged ten.) The evidence, as at the Inquest, showed that three children were seen near the bank of Kirikiri creek on July 19th. Subsequently the .boys were seen going home without the girl. Her. clothes were later found on the bank of the creek. The girl was unable to undress herself. Her body was recovered next day. The boys, when questioned, made statements incriminating each other. ■ Counsel contended that there was no direct evidence to justify sending the boys to trial. The Magistrate considered it a case for a jury and committed the children for trial at Auckland on August 13th. They were admitted to bail.