ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1903, 13 June 1889, Page 4

ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES OFFENCES, ETC.

Auckland, June 10. The Auckland ketch, Zillah, whilst on a voyage from Taurangato Tryphena Harbour, Great Barrier, went ashore at Palmer’s Point, Great Barrier, at 1 o’clock on Sunday morning, the 2nd inst., during heavy weather, and became a total wreck. The master, John Sena, and mate, Frank Ensley, were unable to swim, and wore drowned. [ The three others who were the remainder' of the crew swam ashore. They were brought to Auckland tonight by the steamer Chelmsford. The Zillah belonged to Stone Brothere, and was uninsured. June 11. The body of a storekeeper named Garey was found in the Waiomio river, near Kawakawa, He wanted to cross at 3 a.m. but a settler in the neighbourhood told him to wait till morning. It is supposed that he attempted to swim across and was drowned while doing so. Hokitika, June 10. A man named Hughes attempted to commit suicide at Jackson’s, Christchurch road, by cutting his throat, He had been suffering from neuralgia. He was brought to ICumara hospital. His injuries are not serious.; A child named Henderson was playing with other children lighting a fire, when the flames caught her dress. She was greatly burned and died a day or two afterwards. Mr H. Diedrichs, the well-known runholder, broke his leg by his horse stumbling and falling at Waitaha. David Evans, a miner at Greenstone, while cutting timber, fell into a sandpit, 8 feet deep, and broke four ribs. The case is considered serious. "Wanganui, June 11. A man named Patrick Dillon was brought up on a charge of rape on two girls of tender years, aged 4 and 7 years respectively. The case was heard with closed doors. Prisoner reserved his defence, and was committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court. Cheistchuhch, June 11. An elderly man named Reid, living in North Christchurch, alone, died this morning from a wound in the throat, presumed to he self-inflicted. He called out to neighbours that he had cut his throat, re-commending them to send for the police. They did so, and Constable Scott found Reid lying in a pool of blood. The wound looked as if made yesterday, The constable removed him to the hospital hut he died on the way. Inveecaegill, June 11. A man named George Wilson, alias Frederick James Ward, was arrested here to-day by Detective Madders for picking pockets in Melbourne. Prisoner admits that he came over by the Te Anau yesterday, but says that his name is H. C. Stirling. It has since been ascertained that he has taken the name of a saloon passenger who has gone on to Dunedin. Wilson came over in the saloon, but yesterday victimised a hotelkeeper for the price of a dinner. He answers to the description of the man who is wanted, Oamieu, June 11. At an early hour this morning the police received information that Mrs Agnes Heywood, wife of WVH. Heywood, residing on the North Road, had died suddenly, and that her death was owing to injuries inflicted by her husband. On this information the husband was arrested at about 2 o’clock this morning. An inquest was held to-day, at which the evidence of a sister of deceased went to show that Heywood bad not been living on very amicable terms with his wife. It was shown that he had followed his wife (who was enciente) into her bedroom, and that to escape him she had jumped out of a window; that he had afterwards struck a sister of deceased, and that the latter was shortly afterwards seen lying on the floor, but the sister could not say whether Heywood had struck or pushed her, or whether she had fallen. After this the two sisters left the house, Mrs Heywood being taken ill on the road. She, however, reached her brother’s house, and becoming unconscious, died shortly afterwards. Two doctors were in attendance, and gave evidence that all the organs of the body were healthy and that death must have been due to violence of some kind—a blow or fall —but there were no marks on the body of deceased. Death, they said, was due to compression of the brain due to rupture of a blood-vessel. The police gave evidence that Heywood had admitted that he pushed deceased, and that she had fallen on the mat. The jury returned a verdict that deceased had met her death by violence but how or in what way there was no evidence to show. Heywood was then dsscharged from custody.