ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1161, 5 April 1884, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

At the Supreme Court, Dunedin, on Wednesday. Dr Parry, of Kaitangata, was charged with the manslaughter of Sarah Ann Cuthbertson. _ through malpractice in ’a case of childbirth. The juiy found that Dr Parry, in attempting to deliver the woman, needlessty caused injuries from which the woman died. The evidence was that the doctor seemed in a drowsy condition, as if recovering from some na r cotic. Some women deposed that in order to rouse him they washed his face, combed his hair, and changed his shirt. He fell off the sofa at one time, and they put him on it again. Eventually they sent him out into the garden to get fresh air, but he did not return, and the patient died an hour after he left. For the defence several medical men were called, who gave evidence that cases of internal rupture had occurred, but the theory set up by the prosecution was that the rtmture was caused by external violence, and this the jury upheld by theft’ verdict. His Honor sentenced the prisoner to four months’ without hard labor.

A man named Joseph Pledger committed suicide in a most determined manner on Wednesday at Duntroon. Otago, He tied his hands together and threw himself into a water hole. He had relatives in Dunedin.

On Wednesday afternoon a lad named Willie Moreland met with an accident, the result of which is that he has lost his right thumb. Moreland, who is twelve years of age resides with his parents at Middleton, near Christchurch, and on Wednesday morning, accompanied by a man named Cu’ley and his mate on a shooting expedition up the WaimakarH. Nothing happened until the three were returning to the trap to proceed home, when Gulley’s gun went off, and the charge ladged in the unfortunate boy’s right hand and thigh. He was lift'-d into the trap, and all haste was made to the Hospital, at which place the thumb was amputated and the wounded thigh attended to. The lad bore his pain bravely. Gulley does not know what caused the gun to go off; he believes it was an accident.—Press.

Win. Hy. Jones, late Manager of the Onehunga Iron Works, received fourteen years’ penal servitude for the attempted murder of John McDermot, a ploughman, with whom he had had a quarrel over a game of cards. It will he remembered that he fired five shots at McDermot with a revolver.

Mrs Garrity, or Granity, who fell from the two storey window of a lodging house, in Auckland, recently, while in liquor, died at the Hospital of the injuries received.

A Magisterial enquiry was neld at Eiverton (Otago), on Wednesday into the death at Wrey’s Bush of a woman named named Jane Mildenhall. She had been attended during her confinement by Sarah Jane Flett, and after hearing evidence the magistrate committed the latter for trial on a charge of manslaughter. On Thursday a youth named Thompson who resides at Southbook (Canterbury), whilst riding on a wa er cart, fell off near Mr Sansom’s Store, Eangiora, and one of his hips w'as dislocated and broken.