ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1251, 11 October 1884, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Samuel Fleming, of Ohaupo (Auckland), was throvn from his horse last Tuesday night, and was fatally injured, so that he lias since died. Mrs Tillotson, wife of William Tillotson, dairyman, Epsom (Auckland), got out of bed early on Wednesday morning and fractured her skull by knocking it against an axe in the bick yard, and now lies in the Hospital in a precarious condition. She had previously shown symptoms of mental excitement. In the divorce case, at Auckland William Moulden v. Grace Moulden respondent, Edward Corbett and James iToung co-respondents, a verdiat was given for petitioner on both issues. The ca6e was adjourned to allow petitioner's counsel to apply for a decree nisi, or respondent's counsel for a new trial. At the Supreme Court, Dunedin, on Wednesday, in the case of Charles Fowler, convicted the previous day of robbery from a dwelling, and upon whom sentence was reserved, his Honor said he should reserve the case for the Court of Appeal, to decide whether there had been sufficient evidence to go before a jury. Henry Crocker, for stealing a £1 uote from a dwelling, was found "Not Guilty," but held for trial on a second indictment. Thos. Brown, a married man, for a criminal assault on a girl of eleven years of age, was sentenced to eight years penal servitude. A man named Walter Tucker alias George Henry Marshall has been committed for trial at Gisborne for bigamy with Emily Harris. Bail was fixed at two sureties of £2OO each and himself in £4OO. An inquest was held at Invercargill on Monday on Francis Campbell, a carpenter, aged 41, a very old resident in Invercargill, who shot himself on Sunday in a fowl-house at his mother's residence, Campbell was] a victim of heart disease, and subject to fits of melancholy, during which he spoke of committing suicide. His mother, with whom he lived, is seriously ill, and this seems to have preyed on his mind. He had spoken of shooting himself to his brothers, and on Sunday morning he took his brother's revolver, which had been lying about loaded for two years, and went out. About noon the sound of a shot was heard, but no one seems to have connected it with deceased's threats, and it was not until about six o'clock that his brother found him in the fowlhouse, with a bullet in his head, quite dead. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane, and added a rider to the effect that they desired to censure his brothers for negligently allowing deceased to become possessed of a revolver, they well knowing his state of mind. The Coroner concurred, saying that in his mind his brothers had been grossly careless.