A WELLINGTON SENSATION.
SUSPECTED FOUL PLAY. By Telegraph — Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. A man named John William Long died, in his bed early this morning, in a house in Sage's Lane, off Tory Street. An inquest was- held, and an autopsy performed by Dr Fyffe, who discovered a. fracture of tho skull on the right side of the head above the ear. The inquest consequently was. not gone on, with, the only evidence taken being that of identification' of the body. Long had been drinking, and some time prior to four o'clock thisi morning something happened in. a back yard, the result being that he was carried upstairs to his bed. William Francis Dowman, a labourer, has been arrested on a charge that he did unlawfully kill This really meansi manslaughter, but it is open to the police to prefer a charge of murder against Dowman should the circumstances warrant it. Dowman will be brought 'before the Court tomorrow morning.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10400, 22 August 1911, Page 5
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161A WELLINGTON SENSATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10400, 22 August 1911, Page 5
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