MURDER CHARGE
NEW ZEALAND SOLDIER IM ENGLAND. TIMARU MAN’S DEATH. As a sequel to an affray in which Private Alexander Lindsay Meikle, of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, was fatally wounded, a fellow-soldier. Private Eric Andrew Clark, aged 20. was charged at Maidstone Police Court, with the wilful murder of Meikle. at Maidstone, between September 6 and 7. Meikle, aged 35. lived .at 186 Church Street, Timaru, states the London correspondent of the “N.Z. Herald." The inquest was adjourned until November 4. Clark was arrested after an all-night search by the Home Guard and soldiers. He was charged at a special sitting of Maidstone Police Court, before the Mayor (Aiderman Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake). the deputy-mayor and an aiderman.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1940, Page 6
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118MURDER CHARGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1940, Page 6
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