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BOYS QUARREL.

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BOYS QUARREL. DEATH FOLLOWS. Fight Over Marbles. SINGULAR NEWPORT STORY. Mr. Lyndon Moore, coroner, held an iii- quest at Newport to-day concerning the death of William Minnehane, ten, who lived with his parents at 18, Emlyn-terrace, and died at the Newport and County Hospital on Easter Monday. Mrs. Minnehane, the mother, said when she came home on Sunday, the 24th ult., in the afternoon deceased was crying, and com- plained of having been kicked by a boy named Frank Hoane in the left groin. The following day he seemed worse, and could not walk. Witness took him to the hospi- tal, where he was detained, and died on Easter Monday. She had noticed a black mark as big as a. shilling on the inside of his leg. Archibald Sullivan, a boy of nine, living at 5, Reform-bui- ;-s, said that on Sunday, the 24th ult., about noon, he was playing marbles with other boys at the back of the Emlyn Works. Deceased took witness's marbles, and this led to a fight. Witness got in the first blow, striking deceased in the right side, and knocking him down. When he re-gained his feet Minnihane threw a tin at him, striking him in the ear. A sharp exchange of stones and tins followed. Deceased went to get over a wall, and wit- ness was about to throw a stone at him when he fell over the wall. Frank Hoane, a boy of fourteen, living at 17, Emlyn-terraoe, said he was a witness of the quarrel between deceased and Sullivan. He joined with Sullivan, and threw several stones and tins at deceased, but they did not strike him. Hoane took him by the shouldeT and shook him, but did not hit or kick him. He saw him fall over the wall. Dr. Thomas, senior house surgeon at New- port Hospital, said the boy when admitted complained of being kicked on the left hip. Witness could find no external marks or brmses. About eight hours after admission bronchial-pneumonia set in. An operation was performed, and it was found the boy was suffering from acute necrosis of the left hip. This was the primary cause of death, accele- rated by pneumonia. In summing up, the Coroner said it seemed to him from the evidence little more wan a regular boys' fight, but not with the usual weapons. The case might have been more serious for these boys than it was. If the jury considered it was a ease of man- slaughter they ought to say so. As far as the evidence went—some of which was very oonfliotilJJg-and from the statement of Sulli- van himself, there seemed to be more evi- dence against this -boy than anyone else. There wm such a cloud and doubt a?clut the whole thing that he thought it was not safe for them to send such young boys before a judge to' take their trial on a charge of manslaughter. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence, and added that there was not sufficient evidence to show whether the boy died from injuries or not.

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