British Brutality.
VVr. seldom road of so gross a case of cowardly inhumanity as that a\ hich came to light at an inque&t at Wye a few day& ago. A pirty of men had been drinking together, and one of them made a wager that ho Mould swim across the River Slour. The man, it appear?, was drunk, and promptly began to drown. A &ti anger tried to rescue him, but without success ; whilst the ruilian who had made the wager remarked that " the fellow meant to drown ;" and drowned he consequently was before the eyes of the whole paity, who then returned to the public-house for "another glass." The coroner's jury had to content themselves with censuring the inhuman conduct of tho men, who certainly have good reason to rejoice that the law accepts the distinction drawn in Clough's " New Decnloguo '' : — Thou shalt not kill, but nccd'stnot strive Oniciously to keep alive.
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Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 78, 29 November 1884, Page 4
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153British Brutality. Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 78, 29 November 1884, Page 4
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