ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES, ETC.
Another 1 hoisewhipping case is reported from Wellington. The barmaid at the Star Hotel, horsewhipped a lodger at the hotel who had been annoying her. A man named Thomas Kitching (says the Press) made an attempt to drown himself in the Ashburton river on Tuesday morning. He had bound himself hand aad foot with flax, and somehow succeeded in banging his pinioned limbs round his neck. Tin's having been accomplished, he flung himself into the water, but what little wisdom he had left helped him to select a shallow spot. According to his own statement, he soon found the water uncomfortably cold, and commenced to cry for help. His cries were heard by a passenger going over the bridge, and Kitching was soon released and taken charge of by the police. Ho appeared before Mr Alcorn at the Police Court on Wednesday, and was remanded for medical treatment. At the Dunedin Police Court on Thursday, JohnKeast was fined £3 10a 6d and costa for assaulting C. E. Hutchinson. The prosecutor had written a letter to a newspaper accusing the defendant of cruelty whilst driving a horse, and the defendant in assaulting him said he would teach him to write to the papers.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1170, 26 April 1884, Page 3
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206ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES, ETC. Temuka Leader, Issue 1170, 26 April 1884, Page 3
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