CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.
SEQUAL OF AN. ASSAULT,
[fill Telegraph — Press Association.']
AUCKLAND/ Last Night. W. Osborne was. charged at the Police Court with manslaughter in connection with the death of Mary Gilchrist residing in White street. : Sub-Inspector Hendry stated that the woman led an immoral life •■ and kept accused in idleness. On December 20th the accused beat-her so badly that her body was bruised and 'two ribs broken. The accused was tried for assault, when the woman tried to make out that the assault was her fault, and not the fault of the prisoner; But/the prisoner, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. On January 7th the woman was found'dead, and-;a post mortem examination- showed that death resulted from rupture of , a blood vessel accelerated-by broken ribs, but the condition of her body, was such that she could not have lived long in any case. ' ' . ' •■'■'■' A boy of 16 years deposed te seeing a row in the house, when accused hit deceased, who was put to bed j and 4ater was found on the floor. • At this' stage t lie eaise was adjourned till Thursday.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19110301.2.23
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10177, 1 March 1911, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
187CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10177, 1 March 1911, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in