ASHBURTON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3057, 13 April 1881, Page 3

ASHBURTON.

April 12

A boy named Frank Black, a Lyttelton resident, bad a miraculous escape from being killed yesterday morning. He rode on the Ashburton bridge behind the first train from the south at a full gallop, and consequently did not see that a portion of the planking had been moved in the course of repairs, the result being that the horse and rider were precipitated through an opening on to the bed of shingle, a fall of fifteen feet. The horse was killed instantaneously, and the boy escaped with a severe bruising and cuts about the face. At the Police Court yesterday morning the man Kepper, who attempted to commit suicide in the Old Men's Home, was committed to the Lunatic Asylum. The medical testimony proved him to be of unsound mind. A charge of petty larceny against a man named Fielding was dismissed, the bench, however, ordering that a sum of money found on him at the time of his arrest, and corresponding with the amount stolen from the prosecutrix, a woman of light character, to be handed over to her. (For continuation of news see fourth page.) Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmam^mmmm^mmm*