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Chronicle (Adelaide, S.A.)  22-1-1916
Michael McNally (20), a fireman from the Royal Navy auxiliary vessel, was taken from a lavatory in the Oxford Hotel, Darlinghurst, to St. Vincent's Hospital, at 7 o'clock last evening, and died half an hour later. He had a wound in the chest which might have been caused by a knife. It is stated that McNally, with another sailor from his vessel, an infantryman, and an artilleryman, were drinking in a bar at the hotel when an argument arose as to the comparative merits of the behaviour of sailors and soldiers. Two soldiers and McNally went into a lavatory, and the artilleryman states that the seaman was struck on the right ride of the chest. To his surprise the sailor cried that he had been stabbed. He bared his chest, and it was seen that he was badly wounded at the apex of the right lung. The artilleryman ran for help, but. when he returned with a constable from the Darlinghurst police station, McNally was unconscious. He died shortly after arriving at the hospital. No arrest has been made.

The Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania)  28-1-1916
DEATH OF A FIREMAN.
EVIDENCE -AT THE INQUEST.
VERDICT OP MURDER AGAINST A SOLDIER.
SVDNEY. January 27.
An inquest was held to-day by The City Coronor (Mr. Hawkins) regarding the cause of the death of Michael McNally, fireman on a transport, who died at St. Vincents Hospital on January 15 from a knife wound in the upper part of the chest.
Effin Rogashaw, a member of the West Australian Miners Corps, at present in camp at Casula, was present in custody.
Charles Napier Lewison a member of the Field Artillery, stated that about 7 p.m. on January 15 he was in an hotel in Oxford-street. An infantryman and McNally were talking, and he joined in the conversation, sayng "You never saw, the navy chaps kicking up a row like the infantry.' McNally replied, "I don't quite understand what you mean." He was then struck on the chest by the infantryman. The infantryman then ran upstairs, the sailor bared, his chest, and he saw a wound.
William James Hill, a carpenter, living at 365 Bourke-street, Darlinghurst, stated that he saw Rogashaw while in the.hotel half open and close a knife several times. Then he put it in his pocket.
Rogashaw reserved his defence.
The Coroner found that Rogashaw feloniously and maliciously murdered McNally, and committed him for trial.
Bail was refused.