ALLEGED MURDER.
CORONER'S INQUEST,
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, Last Night. The adjourned inquest in connection with the death of Albert Ryan, who was found in an unconscious condition with his skull fractured in a bedroom of the Frankton Junction Hotel on tho Kith inst., and who died two days later at the Hamilton Hospital, was resumed this morning before Mr. W. V. Masom, Acting Coroner and a jury. Mr. J. R. Luiidon watched the proceedings on behalf of David Morgan Leckie, the man who ,\vas arrested and accused of murder, and who is now in custody. Evidenco was given by two witnesses to tho effect that Leckie had hit deceased oVer the head with a full bottle. Leckie complained that deceased had seriously kicked him in a certain place and had ruined him. Leckie was sworn as a! witness and said ho was a freezing ,wiorks employee, formerly employed at the tmlay works, Wanganui, but recently living at Taumarunui. He declined to give further evidence.
■After a short retirement the .jury unanimously agreed that the deceased Albert Ryan met his death as the result of a blow on tho head from a full bottle of lemonade delivered by David Morgan leckie. ,
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 April 1917, Page 4
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201ALLEGED MURDER. Taranaki Daily News, 25 April 1917, Page 4
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