THE SUICIDE ON AUSTRIAN WARSHIP
"0— . , ■ AN INQUEST STOPPED. (Per Press Association., AUCKLAND, Oct. 2 lira inquest on the Austrian petty officer, who hanged 'himself from trio lunnel of thu Austrian warship Panther, jymg ;,, , t , hv . lmrboUl . hcre> on Saturday morning, was opened this morning, Th ß Austrian Consul pr<h tested against the holding of an inquest as a breach of international law, ami Captain Uoscawen, •Wte Governor's Aide-de-camp, waited on tho Coroner as the jury left tho morgue, asking 'him to postpone the inquest: for v a week. The Coroner consented. Subsequently the Coroner receivml a telegram from tlw minister of Justice, instructing hini not to hold an inquest, as tho Go-vocniiii-nt did net desire to strain the letter of the international law, too far. A telegram w«s also received from,' tgc: Governor, stating instructions ,had jl)|eeii -i given Ito abandon the 'inquest. (It. is 'alleged that the petty officer hanjjfd himself in u fit of tlespomlen-. cy because he was not mentioned in a recent list of promotions.)
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19051003.2.20
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7941, 3 October 1905, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
170THE SUICIDE ON AUSTRIAN WARSHIP Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7941, 3 October 1905, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in