DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1927, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WOMAN WITH KNIFE. AUCKLAND, May 10. A woman, 30, employed by a country vicar as housekeeper, appeared at. the Police Court charged with having attempted to commit .suicide. Yesterday. Accused, whose name was ordered by .Mr J'\ K. Hunt. S.M., to be suppressed. emphatically denied that .she attempted to take her life. “Yesterday afternoon,’’ slid the vicar. “1 was called into the room and found her with a knife is: in r hand. She threatened to cut he. a m. I felt that for the honour of my Household and my church the only Gong to do was to call in the police. She had been a faiffilul, loyal servant, and .since she underwent an operation she has often got into tempers.”

Senior-Sergeant Edward said that it was alleged that she had left a note stating her intent ion • of committing suicide.

The minister further stated that accused’s husband was an old parishioner. Three months mg > when he was out of work witness foil- sorry for him. so he decided to emplov both man and wile at liis house. The husband of accused, who was in court, said that his wife's parents would look after her until siie became well again. “lint they are not here,” said Mr Hunt. “Where can she go now. She wants someone to look after her?" The Rev. Jasper (aider then undertook to have the woman cared for by one of the Rig Sisters. Mr Hunt, thereupon remanded accused for a week.

GAOL CELT.. TRAGEDY. CHRISTCHURCH. .May 11. At the inquest on William. Henry Forsyth (3S), a sinple man, who was found dead in a cell of the Central Police Station on Saturday with a handkerchief noose under his chin, the trip of the noose being caught on a wall plate, the medical evidence indicated that the hamlkerchicf round the lieels bad caused constriction. Dr Crooke thought it might have been due to an te; blent, hut l)r Pearson, pathologist at Christchurch Hospital, who conducted a post-mortem, expressed the opinion that the act was deliberate. The Coroner gave a verdict of suicide by ha ngi ng. WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED. WELLINGTON. May 11. The Wellington City Council decided to-day to allocate £'1‘4.093 for unemployment work in the city, and it is hoped to get a Government subsidy. FI.OURM.ILf.ERS’ PROFITS. AUCKLAND. May 11. The annual report of Recruit Ltd., Ilourmillers, states the net profit ini' the year was JCIilbS. to which must be added a balance brought forward o| £1.712. The directors recommend a dividend of eight per cent, absorbing £72(10. ami to tarry forward £3.470.

BOOKMAKER'S CLIENTS FINED. CHRISTCHURCH. May 12. The second batch of cases.- the remit of the recent raid on the premises if A. V. Whitta, (omitted of being a bookmaker, was heard to-day. Virtually all the defendants resided some distance from the city. One was a woman in Southland. Fines were imposed .-tinging from £2 to £ls. for betting with a bookmaker.

AN ASTONISHING sI’ORY. DENUDIN'. May 3. Arthur George Kenney, appeared at the Police Court, this morning on 24 charges of breaking, entering nod theft. An astonishing story of his wanderings between Evansdale and Dunedin during the last four months was read in his signed statement. His incentive to breaking inti various dwellings and cribs was apparently mainly hunger, firvarinbly bis stay in unoccupied cribs was marked by much feasting. Rarely did lie hinder himself with anything not useful to his wanderings. On one occasion, after breaking into a crib at St. Leonard’s rind boarding himself gratis for two days, ho embarked on an old row boat and bad rather a perilous 3-hour voyage in a. leaky tub to Broad Day. He continued his wanderings ami depredations among East Hal-hour cribs. Sometimes he was without food for days, sleeping among the lupins. Then some weeks ago he bethought himself of the good tilings stored in Neill’s bond store in the city and made his entry in the fashion described in the telegram of May fith.. living heartily on tinned delicacies, champagne ole., hiding by day among the rafters. Often during lonely wanderings lie sat in the, scrub above Ravensbourn watching bis former homo whore Ids wife and baby lived. The latter was ‘b:Til after lie quitted borne for the hills, and one of his first questions after bis arrest, was if it were a bov nr a girl.

Kenney pleaded guilty to all charges and was committed for sentence.

EC MONT TRAGEDY. HAAVEHA. May 13. The search for the missing man Baines was resumed this morning, between thirty and forty being out with the intention of searching as much of the eastern side of the mountain as possible. A formal inquest was opened at, Knpongn this morning and after evidence of identification was given was adjourned. Taylor and Allen are inmates of n private hospital at Ilawera. and passed a comfortable night, hut were unable to he interviewed at noon. At noon parties who returned [mimed out that the action of Allen in cutting himself adrift, did not precipitate the others down the mountain side a second time. MISSING MAN FOUND DEAD. HAAVEHA, Alay 13. The lifeless body of Baines was found by a party of searchers this morning shortly after eleven. He was found approximately half a mile from the spot where Latham’s body was found. A relief party is being organised to convey the body to the mountain house.. Baines apparently crawled on his hands and knees for some distance and had then fallen over a hank of about twenty feet. U NEAIPLO YED. PAHTATUA. Afav 13. Allegations of local unemployment wore made at a meeting of the Branch of the Labour Party, and a resolution was passed that they view with alarm the number of unemployed here, married men with large families; that the Government’s promise of relief works at Mount Bruce had not been carried out. The meeting urged the Importance of an imniediae start being made at trade union rates of pay.