MURDERS, SUICIDES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1878, 13 April 1889, Page 3

MURDERS, SUICIDES, ETC.

London, April 11. A boy fifteen years old brutally murdered bis sister of eleven at Waterford, Herts. The boy has since been arrested. Captain Hunt, military officer at Gospel 0»b, Staffordshire, in a fit of passion murdered bis paramour, an actress named Green. He then com* milled suicide. .. . Hamburg, April 10. The body of a boy, horribly, mangled, and evidently murdered, has been found id a back street in this city. The circumstances strongly resemble those of the Whitechapel murders, and the bad evidently been done by a f -practised hand. There is no clue to the ■murderer. Sydney, April 11. ' In the case of Lavinia Dines, whose body was exhumed somo time ago, and evidence of malpractice exhibited, the jury to-day at first returned a verdict of y murder against Dr Smith and his wife. The coroner asked the jury to consider whether, in their opinion, the drugs were administered for the purpose of causing abortion. The jury, after further consideration, amended their verdict to the effect that deceased died from perforation of the intestines, but that there was no evidence to show how caused, Thames, April 12. Mr Patrick Nolan, one of the underground “ bosses ” in the Saxon GoldMining Company’s mine, met with a serious accident early this morning. He was going through the slopes when a piece of mullock came away striking ' him between the shoulders and fracturing his spine. The lower portion of bis body is paralysed, His case is hopeless. Mr Nolan was until recently Government overseer of the Thames Railway Works, and is well known throughout the North Island. Dunedin, April 12. David Cutler, blacksmith, who ha.? 40 year.? been in fct.al-.i Duviediw, attempted stuck;oy shoeing himself with » revolver. He lias boo . dunking heavily Meiy, Tbero is little likelihood of bis recovery,