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(Per Press Association.) CIIIUSTCIIiJHCH, May u. Brooke, chemist, and his son, an an apprentice, were charged at the Supremo Court with the manslaughter of a woman by neglect in mixing strychnine in a proscription. Dr. Mickle, a Crown witness, who .had made a post mortem examination, stated that death was <iue to congestion of the lungs, and was not in any way caused by strychnine. 'lhe Crown Prosecutor thereupon abandoned the case, and a formal verdict of not guilty was recorded. Joseph Ueorgx; Fletcher wap sentenced to three months' imprisonment for assaulting a woman with intent to do her bodily, harm, .lames Doyle and William linker were sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for assault and robbery. AUCKLAND, May 11. At the Supreme Court to-day, Francis Western was sentenced to (ive years' imprisonment for wounding with intent at the Thames. Western stabbed a man named Mitchell with a pocket-knife.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 109, 12 May 1904, Page 2
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150Supreme Court. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 109, 12 May 1904, Page 2
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