A DRUNKEN SPREE.
MAN FOUND DEAD. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Following upon a drunken spree at Buck's camp, between Swanson and Henderson, a man named Harry Whiteside was found dead. A reporter who visited the place found many signs of the recent carouse. The woman occupier of the shanty stated that the hody was lying face downwards between the bed and the fireplace. She informed him that there had been considerable drinking and some fighting last night, when three men, another woman and herself were present. She remembered a scuffle. She extinguished the lights when she thought everyone else had left. She locked the doors and went to bed. This morning she stumbled across Whiteside's body on the floor. She ran out. screaming "Murder has been done!" The second woman admitted that she had no clear recollection of what happened. She remembered dancing with Whiteside, and a scuffle, but nothing else.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 156, 19 November 1912, Page 5
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153A DRUNKEN SPREE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 156, 19 November 1912, Page 5
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