ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1159, 1 April 1884, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

James Breen, aged 17, fell of the Queen’s Wharf, Auckland, on Thursday uight, and was drowned. He was waiting the arrival of a steamer to take delivery of some fish. At the inquest the verdict was ‘Accidental Death.’ The evidence showed that the lad attended the steamer at the fisherman’s boat at night, and was dead beat for want of sleep. He must have fallen over the wharf while asleep. A respectable looking young married woman named Rebecca Wood has been arrested at Auckland for shoplifting from a draper’s shop. On searching her residence, the police found a large quantify of drapery goods of all kinds. Her husband has since been arrested.

At two o’clock on Friday morning a woman named Garrity, while drunk, fell from the upper storey window of a board-ing-house in Albeit street, Auckland, and fractured her head and thigh. She was conveyed to the Hospital. She will probably recover. A man named J. H. Burrows tried to hang himself on Friday in his garden at Sydenham. Mr T. Taylor was informed of it by Burrow:.’! wife, and running to to the spot fou: 1 him with a rope round his neck and a knife in this hand, swearing he would do for himself. Mrs Burrows had gone into the garden and found her husband hanging by the neck, whereupon she gave an alarm. Mr Taylor went for a constable, who arrested Barrows and lodged him in gaol. A man named R. Skelton was found drowned, at Nelson, on a mud flat on Saturday. He was last seen at half-past 10 o’clock at night, and it is supposed he fell over the breastwork at high water. He leaves a wife and three children.

On Friday afternoon a man named William Lintot was killed at Lincoln, Canterbury, through falling from a threshing machine. His neck was broken. Peter Martin, aged 14, while trying to get into a train in motion at Lincoln station. Canterbury, fell on the line, and the carriages passed over his body, mangling it fearfully. He died on Saturday night in the Christchurch hospital. Dr Parry was committed for trial at Kaitangata on Saturday for malpractice. The evidence showed that in delivering the deceased of a child, he ruptured the womb, causing the intestines to protrude. Inspector Welton prosecuted and Mr Daniel Stewart defended. At Dunedin on Saturday George Luckhurst was sentenced to three years, to run concurrently, on several charges of false pretences.