CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 116, 7 May 1908, Page 2

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.

THE DUNEDIN HARBOR FATALITY.

Per Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. The adjourned inquest on tlie body of tile boy Alexander Edgar McPhe'c was resumed at; three o'clock tliis afternoon. It. was decided that it was unnecessary to take lurllier evidence, the facts having been brought out at the magisterial inquiry into the collision. The verdict was as follows.--"That deceased met his deatli by drowning in Olago harbor on April is through being I brown out of tli e oil launch Malakinu, which came into collision with me steamship Lady Roberts, such collision being caused by the careless handling of the launch by .her owner, Joseph Coddoi, particularly s 0 by his shifting the tiller at a critical moment, thus taking his boat right across the bows of the Lady Roberts, and we think him guilty of manslaughter." Dunedin, Last Night. Consequent on the finding of the jury on the boy MePhee, who lost his life as the result of a collision ibletween the l.adv Roberts and the Matakina on April 18, Joseph Coddoi, owner of tile Matakina, was arrested this afternoon on a charge of manslaughter. Accused was brought before the Court "I" 1 lor a week, bail being a110w,,1 accused i„ u reeog„isa, 1(;u 0 ? AMOO, ami two sureties of £OO each.