LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1920, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The police authorities have received advice that the man Lewis, who, a week ago ,escaped from the lock-up at Palmerston North, has been recaptured at Featherston by Constables McLeod and Swan. Tlie prisoner ,who bad a revolver in his possession at the time, is awaiting sentence on several charges of breaking and entering.

A dastardly act is reported from Waitawhata, between Paeroa and Wailii, where a colt, 18-months old, was stabbed to the heart with some sharp instrument. So far the offender has escaped detection, Ibut- much indignation has been aroused, many of the miners vowing they will themselves deal with the culprit.

With regard to tlie sad fatality reported recently from the Gladbrook Soldiers’ Settlement, near Middlemarch, by which a young"soldier-settler lost his life, the following particulars are now to hand:—Some six soldiersettlers were assisting a comrade to get his crop stacked, and had almost finished. Four of them, including the deceased, were sitting with their backs to the stack chatting, and one man wa s forking up sheaves from the other side of the stack, almost immediately opposite where the party were sitting. In hoisting a sheaf tlie fork slipped from the forker’s hand* and carrying over the top of the stack penetrated the deceased’s back, and entered bis heart, killing him almost instantly. Deceased whose parents reside in the North Otago district, was married only a few weeks ago.