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Show oo BEATEN T,0 DEATH BY WIFE'S LOVER Vancouver, B. C-, Oct 14. Details of the death of Ernest Spinard, a young steel worker, folowing a violent assault, and the arrest and release on bail of Harold A McNaughton, a young man of wealth and social prominence, who was attentive lo Spinard's girl bride, became known here yesterday. McNaughton Is charged with manslaughter. man-slaughter. iMrs. Spinard, barely 16 years old, i8 held as a material witness. wit-ness. Spinard, a steady going young man, died in the general hospital here September Sep-tember 30 after having been locked up in a cell eighteen hours under charge of drunkenness. His face was crushed crush-ed In by a heavy blow and his skull was fractured. The coroner's Jury j rendered a verdict that he was mur-dered mur-dered by a person to the jury uu- McNaughton was arrested last Fri- IH day, but this was not known until yes- terday, when application for hall was H made and he was released In $20,000 H Mrs. Spinard was arrested Friday in IH Seattle. H Investigation today disclosed that H the night before Spinard died he re- IH turned from work to find his home H empty. Troubled by rumors that his IH wife, who was 15 years old when ho IH married her last Christmas eve, had H been seen in company with a young IH man of wealth, he went to look for H Spinard never came back. Mrs. H Spinard returned alone, and told her H parents she had been with McNaugh- IH ton and that they bad encountered her H husband, who she said, protested, and was struck down with a heavy urn- IH A policeman, seeing Spinard in the H gutter, had him taken to the station. H and entered him as a drunk. When IH the next day he still was unconscious IH a doctor was summoned and ordered IH him taken to a hospital. This was noi IB done until the afternoon, and Spinard IH died without regaining consciousness. IH Feulir here is high. M |