Queer Verdicts

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 20, 28 July 1885, Page 2

Queer Verdicts

I hare been gathering up initame ■ of fanny rerdiets For several Tears. 1» my memorandum book I find the following : A Kansas jury (tare the following rerdiet in a ease where a man died in a state of intoxication : " Death by hanging — round a rum shop." Aa Indiana jury recently returned a written Terdict of "Blede to peees bi the biler bustiu." "Jury." said • Western judge, "you kin go out and find a reroiet. If you can't find one ef your own, get the one the last jury used. The jury returned with a rerdict of" suicide in the ninth degree." A Bbcde Island jury were fire days debating on a hog ease inroiring %7, and then came in. found the hog not guilty, •nd recommended both plaintiff and defendant to the mercy of the court. - A Pekin, 111, coroners jury rendered a rery jingular rerdiot, that a man whose body was found in the river, came to his death by a blow on the head, " which was given either before or after the drowning." ...

The ' Frisco mail wiU arrive in Feilding by the last train from Wanganui this evening. Messrs Stevens and Gorton have become the purchasers of the premises now occupied by Messrs Halcombe and SherwilL The purchasers will take possession in September. At Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock sale held here to-day a large quantity of stock was yarded. .The attendance was good, and the bidding pretty brisk, with a rather upward tendency . Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day: — Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 nm. to-day. Wind between N.E. and N.WV at all places north of Blenheim ' and Nelson. Warnings for galsi have been ssnt to all statiens.