Accidents, Offences, &c.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 215, 21 August 1884, Page 2

Accidents, Offences, &c.

[Per Press Association] . ROSINA SMITH.—SHOCKING THEORY. DAMAGING PUBLIC PROPERTY. ANOTHER RAILWAY ACCIDENT. COLLISION OF SHEEP TRAINS. Auckland, August 21. Rosina Smith still maintains the strictest silence regarding her antecedents, and refuses to give any information regarding the father of the child. The police have discovered in a hotel at Cambridge, Waikato, amongst her effects, a small bottle of laudanum. They have also found a gentleman who, when talking to prisoner on Saturday, heard the child cry and saw it move in her arms. This was at 7 o’clock. At 7.20 the prisoner was back at Wakeham, a good ten minutes’ walk from Mason’s garden. The police theory consequently is that she buried the child alive. The inquest will be held to-morrow at 2 o’clock.

Later.—The contents of the stomach of 'the infant of Miss Smith, discovered buried at Parnell, has been forwarded to Mr. Pond (district analyst) for analysis. The unfortunate accused now states she was outrageously assaulted by Wilson, who hushed the case up by promising her marriage. Wellington, August 21. A man named Uphans was arrested to-day while engaged in drawing a diagram in the Provincial buildings, and was charged at the R.M. Court with disfiguring public property, and fined 4s. He was also ordered to pay a penalty of Is. for the removal of the pencil marks. Dunedin, August 21. Early yesterday morning, before daylight two sheep trains, proceeding northwards, overtook another sheep train at Seacliffe, and ran into into it. The guards van and two trucks were smahed, and several chains of the permanent way injured. Fortunately there is a loop-line at the place, so that the ordinary traffic is not interfered with. John McMillan, North Taieri, died from tetanus, which supervened upon a wound in his right eye. He was driving a horse out of a paddock in the dark, and ran against a post, a splinter from which penetrated his eye. An old settler named John Hodin was found dead in a creek at Kaitangata yesterday.