DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. ABANDONED CAR FOUND. TAU-MARUNUI, June 8. Yesterday afternoon, the local police received information that a Packard motor-car Had been found abandoned near a farmhouse at Hikiniutu, twelve or fourteen miles south of Taumarumii. An investigation proved the car was one ivhich had been stolen from Auckland last week, and tbe opinion is expressed that the escaped prisoner Buckley used the. car to make bis way into tbe King Country, where lie abandoned it, probably owing to the benzine giving out. It is believed the car passed through Taumarumii on Sunday night. A seniors ACCIDENT. AUCKLAND. June 8. Hector Park, .a resident of Avondale, attempting to get aboard a railway carriage while the train was moving. missed the step but held on anti struck the .side of the carriage. He rolled towards the line, but was bit off by the uiulergenr, which tore his clothing and threw him clear of four following vans. He was removed to the hospital with .severe internal injuries, and probably will have one arm aniputa tod.

THE ESCAPED PRISONER. TAU.M.ARANUI. June 8. Further in formation in regard to the stolen Packard car shows that Buckley abandoned it on Sunday afternoon. and persuaded a settler to drive him to Ovvhangp. The settler unaware of his identity expected him to return for the. car. lienee the delay in notifying the police; who did not know of the car’s abandonment until yesterday. Meanwhile Buckley, who has friends in this , district and knows the country well is still at large. iSergeant O'Brien and Detective Davis, of Auckland, are at [iresent making investigations at llikimutu. ARSON CHARGE. DUNEDIN, June 8. With no hope of recovery from a fatal complaint, and with bis wife and child destitute, a young man, Walter Reynolds Sanders, set fire to a storeroom containing Ids furniture, to secure the insurance for bis wife. He received £**l2 as assessed damage for it. Sanders pleaded guilty in the court this morning to a charge of arson and was committed for sentence. A plea for the suppression of his name, because bis wife knew nothing of the trouble and was in delicate health, and also because accused’s health was so precarious and bis prospects so black was refused, but lie was admitted lxbail on a nominal surety. MANAWATU SHOW. PALMERSTON NORTH, June 8. Entries for'all classes for the National Dairy Show were 3.171. General entries are nearly 200 ahead of last year. Twenty breed and other societies will meet during the course of the Show, including the National Dail v Associntion.

INQUEST ON FARMER. PAHTATI A, June 8. The inquest on It. R. Croud, of llallance, farmer, who died under an anaesthetic in the hospital, showed the operation was imperative. Extreme care had been taken throughout. Hie patient was watched very closely. Deceased underwent the first operation on Saturday for double hernia. Obstruction of the bowels necessitated another operation on Monday night. The patient collapsed when the operation was practically over. Ether was used as it was considered safer than chloroform. The patient did not take the anaesthetic well either time and died of inhibition of the heart. Ihe second operation was absolutely necessary, otherwise the patient could not have lived. Deceased was a personal friend of one "f the medical men. A case ol this nature was his first experience in 'ten thousand. A verdict in accordance with the medical evidence was returned. CONSTABLE ASSAULTKD. CHRISTCHURCH. June 8. Sydney Ernest Jamieson, a seafarer, was to-day sentenced to one months’ imprisonment for brutally assaulting Constable Edward , Arthur Irwin. Jamieson appeared at the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court this morning. Constable Irwin stated that iast evening he had occasion to arrest lor drunkenness, one Thomas O'Shea. Accused drew up from behind and struck witness behind the car. Jamieson immediately assaulted him repeatedly by striking him about tbe jaw. neck: and throat. 'Witness cnosuk-red it was the most brutal assault lie had ever experienced ns a policeman in Lyttelton. O’Shea also assaulted him and had it not been for a total stranger wlm came to bis assistance, lie would not have been able to manage both men.