The Fatal Fight Between Boys.
(By Tolegraph—Press Association). • Donedin, December 29. Fogarty was before the Police Court to-day, and was formally remanded till tomorrow. The inquest is to be hold this afternoon, The Inquest Verdict of Manslaughter, Dunedin, December 2D. At the inquest on tho body of tho boy Fiddis, who died after the fight yesterday with a boy named fogarty, the jury returned a verdict ot manslaughter, and added a rider strongly recommending Fogarty to mercy on account of his youth, and not having been the aggressor in the fight, The medical evidence was to tho effect that death was duo to effusion of blood on the vital part of the brain at the back of the head. The theory being that a blow in front will sometimes cause such effusion, and (hero was general coogietion of the brain, The doctor did not think that excitement alone would cause effusion of suoh kind in a healthy boy, and Fiddis was on the whole healthy.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4307, 30 December 1892, Page 3
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165The Fatal Fight Between Boys. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4307, 30 December 1892, Page 3
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