STIRLING MANSLAUGHTER CASE.
COxNTitAHICTOKI tVIDiiNCIi. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Duuediu, Last Night. The Cornish iua7tslaughter ease was continued at the Supreme Court, Duntidin, to-day. Evidence was given by Dr. -Burnett (tfalclutha), Lily Knox (housemaid), Taylor (barman), Smith U* temporary boarder), and the police at Kinson. A new witneaa acknowledged liiinaelf unSober in the Ijox and "was ordered down. #
The evidence was even more contradictory and tangled than in the lower Court. The case for the . Crown was concluded. Mo witnesses are to bef called for tho defence. Dr. Burnett stated tliat he believed tJlie cut on deceased's temple might have been caused by a fall and violent contact with some sharp, hard substance, such as the architrave of a door. Death, he believed, had 'been due to a bruise a little larger than half a crown piece <M the . brain, probably caused bv a violent blow on the face, but that tliero was nothing to show how this had been dealt. Alcoholism had been a contributing cause.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 206, 20 August 1908, Page 2
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166STIRLING MANSLAUGHTER CASE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 206, 20 August 1908, Page 2
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