FATAL FIGHT AT KISSING POINT.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 160, 13 April 1872, Page 3

FATAL FIGHT AT KISSING POINT.

Thomas Tebbutt has been committed for trial, charged with the manslaughter of Michael Clark. The circumstances of the case, as stated by prisoner, and supported by evidence taken at the inquest, were : That on Sunday, March 17, about 10 o’clock, Tebbutt went to the house occupied by James Mills, where “Mick’ ; (deceased) lived. After some conversation they commerced fighting. The blows Tebbutt gave deceased knocked bi:n down on to a log in the yard, and he struck him twice with his fist. Deceased got up, and they commenced lighting again, and deceased fell on the back of his head ; deceased and Tebbutt had another row, and in the fight Tebbutt hurt bis hand ; Clark saw that he was hurt, and said, “ Yes, you l> , I’ll knock your hands olf again.” Deceased was bleeding from the lip. When decens.-d was down Tebbutt struck him on the head twice. They afterwards went ido a paddock to finish the light. Tebbutt knocked deceased down, and his head striking upon some stones, was fractured in such a manner as to cause death in a few hours. Deceased, after receiving the injury referred to, was removed to a public-house. His treatment there may be inferred from the following rider attached by the jury to their verdict:— “ We wish to express our sense of the inhuman conduct of William Tebbutt, the landlord of the White Hart public-house, in permitting the deceased to remain half-un-hour in a dying state without endeavouring to alleviate his snfferin or to obtain mc-dieal assistance until threatened by one Ryan that he would report the matter to the police.”—Sydney paper.