Accidents and Offences.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 199, 2 August 1884, Page 2

Accidents and Offences.

COMMITTAL FOB TBIAL FOB ROBBERY. MAN FOUND DEAD. ESCAPE FROM DROWNING. RESCUED BY A CONSTABLE. MAN KNOCKED OFF A TRAIN. SUICIDE. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, August 2. Mrs. Warksworth, recently arrived here from Timaru, has been committed for trial on a charge of stealing a box of wearing apparel, the property of a fellow-passenger. An elderly man named Thomas King, a resident of York street, was found dead in his house this morning. He had been drinking heavily lately, and only last night drank off a bottle of rum. He leaves a wife and three children.

A man named Henry Hatten, hailing from Kaikoura, had a narrow escape from drowning early this morning. While drunk he fell off the breastwork, and was rescued by a constable in a very exhausted condition. His legs had become entangled in the kelp.

Thomas Smith, a fireman on one of the trains, had a narrow escape of being killed yesterday. Noticing one of the doors of a truck open, he walked along the platform of the engine to close it. In attempting to do so, he came into collision with a telegraph post alongside the line, and was knocked off the train. When picked up he was found to be severely bruised, and was removed to town for medical assistance. The steamer Tui, while coming over the Foxton bar yesterday, bumped, and had her rudder and stern post carried away. She arrived here this morning, and will undergo repairs. Greymouth, August 2. William Islierwood, formerly an employee in the Despatch Foundry, blew his brains out yesterday afternoon. He put the muzzle of shot gun in his mouth, and pulled the trigger by his toe in a loop of flax. He was in financial difficulties, though he had been left £l,lOO in September last. He had been engaged in unprofitable mining speculations for the last seven or eight months, and was drinking rather heavily of late. The bailiffs were in his private residence.