ACCIDENTS FATALITIES, OFFENCES ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1900, 4 June 1889, Page 4

ACCIDENTS FATALITIES, OFFENCES ETC.

London, May 30. Henry Yizetelly, of Yizetelly and Co., publishers in the Strand, has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for selling copies of Zola’s works, although the books had been revised since November last, when the firm was fined £IOO for publishing obscene literature. The Court at the same time, besides fining the firm, ordered Zola’s works generally to be suppresed. During the inquest on the remains of the late James Maybrick, who, it was alleged, had been murdered by his wife, a letter written by accused to a gentleman in Liverpool showed that improper relations existed between Mrs Maybrick and the gentleman indicated. The inquest has been adjourned for further evidence. At the inquest upon the death of Irving Bishop, the thought reader, the jury brought in a verdict to the effect that he died from coma, and the doctors who were taken into custody have been released. June 1. At the inquest on the body of Maybrick, Mr Bateson, of Virginia, states that he was intimate with deceased on the voyage to England. Maybrick, he says, was in the habit of taking arsenic, and the doctor had warned him of the dangers of the practice. Dublin, June 1. News was received here to-day that the manager and assistant of the branch of the Provincial Bank at Ballymena, Antrim, had been found shot dead on the public road. It was at first thought that that both had been murdered, and that the culprit had made off j but subsequent information; proved that the two men having quarrelled, the assistant manager, out of revenge, shot the manager, and then committed suicide. Paeis, May 30. A tragedy is reported from Saint Dil, ‘a town in the Department of the Yosges. A man murdered his wife and five children and then committed suicide. Belgrade, May 30. A hundred of the rioters have been arrested. Garaschenen has also been arrested on a charge of shooting at a student with intent to kill. New Toek, May 80. A detective named Bruce has deposed that an alderman of Chicago, called S; Pearse,-offered him £l2O to decoy and murder Dr Cronin. Bruce says that he was violently assaulted because he failed to fulfil his agreement. The alderman declared that he could engage plenty of others to murder Dr Cronin, Woodruffe, waggoner, who confessed to his complicity in the murder of Dr Cronin, states that the murderers kept him waiting with his waggon until Dr Cronin was killed. The body was then placed in the waggon. He drove to an open sower and there deposited it. Chicago; June 2. Two boys have discovered the trousers worn by Dr Cronin, They were buried in sand. A further search instituted by his wife, resulted in his coat, shirt, and undershirt being found close to where the first discovery had been made. A strange vest was also unearthed, and this is believed to be the property of one of those who took part in the murder Zanzibae, June 1. Smallpox of the most virulent form has broken out among the native troops under the command of Captain Wissman, and numerous deaths are, reported. Calcutta, May 29. Cholera is raging in the Ganjam district, in the Presidency of Madras. Fourteen hundred deaths were reported last week. Sidney, May 31. The mother of the young man named Fitzpatrick, who ; fell dead whilst fighting another named Richardson at Ulapa West on Wednesday night, died from the shock of her son’s death caused her. At the inquest on the body of Fitzpatrick the jury returned a verdict that death was caused by excitement. . June 2. Two men, named Salliers and Millar have been drowned by the flood in the Manning river, Tares. Melbouene, May 31. John Anglin, who on the 27th of December, after breaking his brother-in-law’s aria with a bullet, fired twice at his wife, of whom he was absurdly jealous, and killed her, has been sentenced to' death. . Philip Plaisted, a well-known organist, who murdered his wife by cutting her throat on the 10th of May, is now hopelessly insane, and has been committed to an asylum. Auckland, May 81. A man of-war sailor had his knee cap brokei to-day while being arrested by constables Mackav and Dunn. The enquiry into the collision between the Awhina and the Australia has resulted in the captain of the latter being held blameahle, and Captain Kemp’s certificate has been suspended for three months. Cheistchubch, June 1. Yesterday afternoon a convict named Tiliet escaped from the gang at work on the batteries at Sumner Road Lyttelton. He got away from the works unobserved, but a sentry caught sight of him while making his way through the flax hushes below the road. The warder gave chase and captured him about a mile from the tottery. )

The Rev. Father Chatsagnon was thrown out of a buggy at Ashburton on Saturday afternoon and had his collar-bone broken, was considerably cut about the head, and badly shaken. Turning a corner too shirply was the cause of the accident. Mr T. Wauchop met with ail accident at Papanui on Saturday morning that resulted fatally.- He was staying at the Sawyers’ Arms, and about 4 a.m. got up and as he thought stepped into the yard. Instead of that he stepped on to the balcony, and from [it he fell to the ground, a distance of 16 feet. It was 6 o’clock before he was found. His left leg was fractured, and the kneecap crushed. He was taken to the Christchurch hospital where the leg was amputated, but he died on Sunday evening from the shock. Masteeton, June 1. An elderly woman named Chiltenden fell into a fire last night in a fit, and had an arm and thigh badly burnt. In Timaru on Sunday, a young man hired a buggy and pair of horses, and left the turn-out standing outside the Commercial Hotel, while he went to call a friend. The horses bolted, and got on to the Moody wharf. The vehicle was broken to pieces, and there is little doubt but that the whole turn-out would have gone into the sea had the horses not fell just before they reached the end of the wharf. One of the horses was badly hurt, its legs being cut and a portion of one of its hoofs broken off.