ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.
The body of a Mrs Black was found in the Wellington harbor on Saturday morning. She was the wife of a storeman in the Telegraph Department. Deceased, who had been separated from her husband some considerable time, had been drinking, and had threatened to commit suicide.
A man named R. Johnston, aged 60 years, was accidentally drowned in the Cam river at Kaiapoi on Friday. It is thought that he went to the river to get water and slipped in. The body was recovered on Saturday morning. A young man named William Cumberworth, a telegraph despatch clerk, was drowned on Sunday while bathing at Taylor’s Mistake, near Sumner. The body was recovered in the afternoon. Helen Walls, who has served several sentences for petty larceny, was arrested for drunkenness at Dunedin late on Friday night, and died in the cells a few hours afterwards. Medical testimony at the inquest showed that she died from heart disease.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2325, 1 March 1892, Page 3
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159ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC. Temuka Leader, Issue 2325, 1 March 1892, Page 3
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