Age: unknown
Sex: male
Date: 10 May 1917
Place: HM Auxiliary Cruiser Tithonus, Glasgow
Stephen Mellish died after his friend assaulted him after they drunk over proof rum on a vessel in Glasgow harbour on 10 May 1917.
His friend was tried for his murder but the charge was reduced to simple assault on account that he did not remember anything because he was drunk.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see National Records Of Scotland - AD15/17/78
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 26 June 1917
see Unsolved 1917
