A Serious Charge.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 5. The Stipendiary was occupied this afternoon with what is understood to l>o the first case in Wellington under section 180 of th« Criminal Code. Daniel Cavanagh pleaded not guilty to a charge under this section of having in July caus"ed actual bodily harm to a wix-veur old hoy named Davkl Clark, "under such circumstances that if the death of tho 1 boy had 'been caused accused would have been guilty of manslaughter." This is a special offence under section 380, awl a person convicted is liable to two years' imprisonment. The case for the Orown was that the boy got on to the step of a stationary milk cart, which accused was driving; that the accused told the boy to get off, at the samo time whipping th'e horse into a smart walk ; that after the horse had 'gone a tew paces' the boy fell under a wheel, which passed over his arm, breaking it, and narrowly missing, his head. The accused was committed to the Supreme Court for swtonce,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 183, 6 August 1904, Page 2
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179A Serious Charge. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 183, 6 August 1904, Page 2
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