CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.
By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, April 5.
At the-inquest to-day on Benjamin Mores, boardinghouse keeper, who died in the ho&pital from injuries caused by a blow with a bottle, the evidence went to show that Mores got out of bed to find the cause of a disturbance in his house. He charged Joseph Griffiths with having brought a loafer on to the* premises. Griffiths seized a 'large square bottle ana threw it at Mores, striking him a violent blow on the head. Griffiths, when asked why he had done this, replied that he was sorry; he was in a passion. '
The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Griffiths, who is.in custody.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3156, 6 April 1909, Page 5
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114CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3156, 6 April 1909, Page 5
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