ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2732, 1 November 1894, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

At Timaru a swagger named J. H. Horton, was charged with travelling from Studholme to Timaru on a train without a ticket, and was fined 10s. He was further charged with using some indecent language in the street after leaving the train, and was sentenced to 48 hours' imprisonment. A body found in an unfrequented paddock on a farm at Mangere, Auckland, has been identified by Mrs Baker, of Auckland, as that of her father, Patrick Fitzgerald, who had' been missing since the 13th inst. It is conjectured that he must have wandered away to the country, lost his way> and lain down and died of exhaustion and exposure. Fitzgerald, who was 64 years of age, had been getting slightly imbecile. He was an army pensioner, and had belonged to the artillery. At Auckland Abraham Bowden was committed for trial on a charge of perjury. Bail was allowed, which was immediately forthcoming. Mr Robert Morton, whose body was found floating in Wellington harbor on Sunday, was a well-known resident of Hastings for the last twenty-five years. In the Magistrates Court, Wellington seven young men, all under twenty years of age, were charged with a serious offence upon an elderly married woman. She asserts that on Tuesday night last she was accosted by one of the prisoners in Victoria street, and on his whistling about eighteen young men answered to the call, and carried her to a blind lane, where she declares that she was knocked down and criminally assaulted by two of the gang, whom she has identified. The offence is alleged to have taken place about thirty yards off Willis street, one of the main thoroughfares, at half-past nine o'clock in the evening. Under cross-examination, the woman admitted that she had been in the Island Bay Hotel nearly all day, and had been drinking beer there. On* or two of the prisoners admit being present. The prisoners were remanded until Wednesday morning. A man/named William Brennan was found dead is» a whare near Karakara. A post mortem revealed signs of strychnine poisoning, and a bottle with strychnine crystals was found beside deceased. The jury returned a verdict of poisoning, but whether by accident or design there was no evidence to show. ; A woman named Hercus 'attempted suicide at Westport on Monday evening. She jumped into the river and was rescued by a man named Wheatley. James Hawthorn, a well-known commercial, traveller, was stricken with apoplexy on landing at Westport from the Grafton on Monday evening. He died a few hours afterwards. At Christchurch Mr Frederick Banks, aged 69, of the firm of Miles & Co., died suddenly in his office at ten mir»"*' e 8 tQ o'clock oa> Tuesday He had been ailing fOS some months, but would not leave work. The immediate cause of death was failure of the heart's action. He came from Melbourne in 1857. He did not ta.ke a prominent part in public affairs, hut was at one time a member of the Synod. At o?maru Mrs George Falconer, an I old lady 67 years of age, committed suicide by hanging herself from the verandah of her sister-in-law's house early on Monday morning. Sha recently returned from Wellington. M verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned. At luveroargill Joseph Fall, who sustained a compound fracture of the skull through being knocked down the hold of the steamer Taieri, died in the hospital on Tuesday, ft