MURDERS, SUICIDES, AND OFFENCES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1880, 18 April 1889, Page 1

MURDERS, SUICIDES, AND OFFENCES.

London, April 15. A man named Feros shot his sweetheart, Lily Bainford, an actress, on the Midland Railway, and then committed suicide by leaping from the carriage into the river Trent, New York, April 15. An. English working man named King, with his wife and six children, has been murdered at a place called Titus, in Texas. The murderers escaped. Georgetown, April 14. Negroes looted the shops of Portuguese traders, The rioting lasted four days, when a war vessel arrived and quelled the rising. Many of the ringleaders have been arrested,

Melbourne, April 15. Doctor Tigg, a well-known medico of Williamstown, has been arrested on a charge of performing an illegal operation, The patient is reported to be dying. Brisbane, April 16, A body of Unionist printers attacked several non-Unionist printers in the street last night and brutally maltreated them. Hobart, April 15. Three men are reported to hare carried off a girl and outraged her. Two of them bare been arrested.

Wbitpom, April 15. David Lawton, a coal miner, working at Denniston, went to bed on Saturday night with his wife, lie awoke about midnight, rose from his bed, and obtaining a pick, struck her, while she was asleep, three or four heavy blows with it, and fractured her skull, Lawton then gave himself into the custody of the police. Shortly afterwards he wandered in bis mind, and to-day was given sleeping draughts, and had morphia injected into his arm. In consequence of want of sleep and a diseased brain these opiates overcame him, and he now lies unconscious, The unfortunate woman also lies in a similar state, and it is doubtful whether either will recover. Lawton has been twice charged with lunacy here, once a few we'eks ago. One doctor certified to his i.nsaniiy. Ihe other said that the man w.te sane. He was therefore set at liberty. Lawton says that somethi.ag impelled him to kill his wife, and that he got up, obtained a pick bead, and struck her while she was asleep three or four blows on the head. She gave one scream only. There are no hopes of the woman’s recovery. There are said to have been motives of jealousy in’the man’s mind. Lawton was given a sleeping draught and morphia yesterday, and the effect, upon him is vary bad ; in fact, it is feared that he may succumb.

April 16.

The man David Lawton, whojsom milled a murderous assault on his wife on Saturday night at Denniston, died last night. At the inquest held to-day, the evidence of the police, Dr MacCartney, and Dr McDonnell was taken. The jury found, in accordance with the medical evidence, “ that David Stead Lawton died from disease of the brain, intensified by excitement.” The injured woman remains unconscious, and there is little hope of her recovery. Christchurch, April 16. An inquest was held yesterday on the body of Pinching, who died suddenly at 1 Waiau lockup. The post mortem examination showed that death resulted’ from poisoning by bromide of potassium, which deceased presumably, took arrested, as « bottle containing traces of that drug was picked up near where the constable took him. The verdict was in accordance with the medical evidence.

Richard Jackman, a laborer at Leeston, bas been arrested on a charge of criminal assault on his daughter, aged fifteen.

Dunedin, April 15. Patrick Henderson Millar, sixty years old, said to be well connected, committed suicide by taking cblorodyne. He left letters saying that he suffered from insomnia, brought on merely through law work, and that he was not intemperate. At the inquest the verdict was that death resulted from an overdose of chlorodyne self-administered while temporarily insane. Deceased has a brother in well-to-do circumstances, whose address is James Milar, Cullen House, Cirencester. Be also stated that be had a daughter named Mary, of whom ho wished to hear, Thera were only a few scraps of food in the bouse. Naheb, April 15.

David Balharry, at one time manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company here, but lately agent for the Imperial and United Insurance Company, was found in Tutatekari River, near Redcliffe bridge, ibis afternoon. His neck was broken, On the bridge were his horse, ccat, hat and watch, Appearances leave no doubt of suicide. He jumped 30 feet into shallow water. Financial difficulties are supposed to be the cause of the act. April 16.

At the inquest on the body of David Balharry, a yerdict was found of suicide under temporary insanity. Deceased left a letter addressed to Mr Patten, Collector of Customs, saying that all through hie life he had contemplated suicide. Christ died to save mankind, and ho died to save his creditors. He had no fear for his soul, and believed death to be a dreamless sleep, but if there are means of communication between the visible and invisible worlds, he would wake up his friends if he could get a chance. Deceased was insured with the Government for £ISOO. He arrived in Napier in 1868, as managing clerk to Watt Bros., and was afterwards agent for the New Zealand Shipping and Imperial Fire Insurance Companies. He leaves a widow and seven children. A woman named Greenwood, wife of a bailiff here, was found dead in bed this evening. She was suffering from drink, and lay down on her bed. She took some lea at 6 o’clock, and at 7 o’clock was found dead. She had emptied a bottle of aconite lotion, it is believed in mistake for spirits. Auckland, April 16. Mary Ann Wilson, the woman who reported that she had been dangerously wounded by some person unknown while asleep ont of doors at Archill, died to-day. In her dying deposition she accused Louis Paget, the man with whom she had been living, of having committed the injuries, and said that he made her promise not to tell. Paget is already in custody and will be charged with murder. Latbe.

In her dying depositions Mary Ann Wilson stated that it was Louis Paget, with whom she had lived, who stabbed her. She deposed that on the night of the sth she and Paget left Auckland for Waibomaite, eight miles distant, where they resided. Paget was drunk, and when they got to Arch Hill, two miles out of town, they sat down to rest. It was at this time after 11 o’clock. Wilson fell asleep, and awoke to find Paget over her with a knife in his hand. She struggled to prevent him from catting her throat, and he then stabbed her in the breast. The woman fainted, and when she revived iu the early morning she walked with Paget to the Hospital. She had previously refused to state who it was that inflicted the wound because Paget had asked her not to tell, Since bis incarceration Paget wrote a letter in which he states that ha had no recollection of stabbing the woman, and if hi; did so it must have been accidental.