CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9104, 2 June 1908, Page 5

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, June 1. The hearing of the charge of manslaughter against Richard Cornish, late licensee of the Stirling Hotel, waa continued to-day. Lily Knox, a domestic servant, .•gave evidence contradicting that previously given by the cook. She said sha heard no moaning on the day of the death of Mrs Cornish. There was no blood in the sitting room. W'lifin accused went to the bath-room he had nothing in his hands. The ■day betore her death the deceased had a mark like a bruise behind her ear. Alexander Smith, labourer, said "that accused and the deceased showed him to his room on the night of April 80th. Later oh the deceased returned and asked him aboutsome word he had used, but he did not unders:und her. Accused caught her by tHe back, and pulled her into the ;;pissage. Witness heard the rustle of a drcsa as if accused was pulling the deceased ulong. There was no bruises •on the deceased's face when witness last saw her. William James, farmer, of Inchclutha, said that he saw the de- •> ceased in the hotel between 9 and 10 a.m. on May Ist. There was nothing unusual in her appearance. Wm. Taylor, barman, said that the deceased had been drunk for a ■week before her death. He saw no :marks on the deceased's face. In committing the accused for trial the Magistrate (Mr Kenrick) said that evidence had bsen wilfully sup--*--pressed by many witnesses. His reason for sending the accused to the Supreme Court was that the body was '"found by his bed, and he must have known how it got tnere. Bail was allowed accused in £2OO and two sureties of £IOO.