ACCIDENTS OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1240, 18 September 1884, Page 1

ACCIDENTS OFFENCES, ETC.

Daniel Mahoney, for having bitten off the nose of James Fearon, was committed for trial at Wellington on Tuesday.

A man named James Henderson was arrested in Chrintchurch on Tuesday afternoon charged with stealing jewellery from Dr Sinclair during his sojourn in Ashburton.

A middle-aged man named Jamss Graham, was found drowned at,the wharf stepp, Wangmui, at 9 o'clock on Tuesday moroing. He had been drinking on the previous day. Hugh McFadyeD, who was Town Clerk of the North-East Borough, Dunedin, died on Sunday. He was seized with an apoplectic fit on Thursday evening, after the excitement of the election for Coun-

cillors, and never recovered. He went to Dunedin in 1847.

The Wellington police have on hand, and will in due course hand over to the Assignee in the estate of Mr Poppens, money sufficient to pay in full all claims against the estate, as well as all costs of arresting him in Australia, Both M'Grath and Poppens are out on bail. At Tnvercargill on Monday the boy

Frank Marisco *vas committed for trail on a charge of manslaughter. The accused threw a poker at his brother Joseph ma dark room and missed him, and struck his brother Louis on the head, arid the latter died from the effects. Mr A. Masters, a hacter, of Princes-

Street, Dunedin, received the following telegram from the Bluff on Monday morning :—" S.S. Waibora. Have , come back. Mrs Beddingfield and I were starving in Melbourne. Can we stay with you for a day or two ? Answer. —• Victok Beddingfield." Mr Masters sent the short but emphatic reply—"No ; certainly not." John Keen, alias John Gallagher, a

pensioner of the 70th Eegiment, was found on the Buataniwha Plains, Hawkes Bay, in an exhausted condition on Saturday, and was carried to the Onehunga Hotel, but died in the afternoon. He had been out all through Friday night in bitterly cold rain and snow. The deceased was of intemperate habits, and is supposed to hi,ve been intoxicated when he lay down to sleep. At the Resident Magistrate's Court, Waimate, on Tuesday'last, Samuel C. Bedman, and George C. Bedman, father and son, were committed for trial at the Supreme Court for making counterfeit com. Two other charges (one for coloring silver coins so as to resemble gold, and another for uttering counterfeit coin) were withdrawn. —A man named James Mitchell was also committed for trial for breaking into the Grosvenor Hotel, Waimate, with intent to commit a felony. At the Supreme Court, Dunedin, on Monday last, a domestic servant sued a man named J. A. Finlay for £4OO for breach of promise of marriage. Ihe engagement was clearly proved. It seemed that an old sweetheart of the defendant arrived in the colony from Home, «ind once more gained his affections, upon which he wrote to the plaintiff, stating that he could not marry her because Bhe had her character, whilst the girl from Home had lost hers through him. The "letters which were produced in Court contained verses of a very crude but tender description. The jury brought in a verdict for the deserted maiden, giving her £IOO as a salve for her outraged feelings. At JSTnseby, on the 11th instant, an elderly man named Duncan Sinclair, was brought up before the Magistrate on a charge of assaulting his sister-in-law, Mrs Welsh. The woman refused to prosecute, and the case was dismissed. Two ho'irs subsequently the woman died very suddenly, and Sinclair was arrested for manslaughter. At the inquest the evidence showed that the assault was not bo serious as had been supposed, although Sinclair had been seen brandishing a knife and striking deceased with a spade. The medical evidence, however, was to the effect that deceased suffered from fatty degeneration of the heart, and her condition was such that death was likely to happen at any moment. There was no (external marks of violence. A verdict of death from natural causes was returned, and Sinclair wan dismissed.

The following are additional particulars in reference to an accident which occurred to the Akaroa coach on Saturdaylast, when George Bishop, schoolmaster, received injuries from which,he died : Mr Bishop, Mr Bennetts, and the driver (Lj Maine) were on the box seat. Od Hearing Barry's Bay, the coach metahoiaeman driving a young bull, which ran in front of the horses causing them to swerve, aud then turn round so sharply that one oi the frout wheels of the coach broke off close to the axle-box. The

horses then bolted, and dragged the coach for some distance, when they became detached from the vehicle and

dashed pell-mell into a small gully. The driver wes throvxn off the box. When the

horses first turned Bennetts juinp«d off almost immediately after, and escaped with nothing more than some bad bruises and a few cuts. On getting up he rao towards the coach, which was lying on the road, and found Mr Bishop on the ground near it. A lady who was inside the vehicle had received some bad bruises and cuts, but a gentleman and three children, who were also inside passengers, bad escaped comparatively unhurt. Mr Bishop, though conscious and able to speak, was so very much hurt as to be unable to rise from the ground. He said he thought his thigh wes broken, and thathe had received internal injuries. Aoother coach soon came up, and Mr Bishop was laid on a matress and taken to Little: Hiver, where he ahortly after died.