CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2643, 28 June 1877, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

Wednesday. It is just reported that a warder named Frederick Whife has been fatally stabbed by an inmate of the Lunatic Asylum. The particulars are not yet known. It is also stated that a man has been killed on the railway

This day.

The reported accident on the railway arose from the following. Yesterday morning, Mr and Mrs Berry, elderly people, were driving near the railway crossing at Teuipleton. A train came up and frightened the horse, which bolted and upset the trap. The occupants were, thrown violently cut. Mr Berry fell on his hep.d and broke his neck. Mrs Berry sustained a severe fracture of the right arm. The somewhat singular fact is that

Berry's daughter is nur-i'ed to a son of the Mr White who was stabbed in the Lunatic Asylum yesterday, so that each loses a parent on the same day, and very nearly about the same time.

The Board of Education have resolved to recommend the various school commitueas Id establish a system of penny savings banks in their schools.

A man named John Fraser was found dead on the floor of his bedroom yesterday morning. He is supposed to have died in a fit.

The stabbing case at the Lunatic Asylum is confirmed.. It has caused a great sensation here. The particulars are as follow :—After having dinner yesierday Frederick White, one of the principal warders, proceeded to the kitchen. Mark Price, an inrapte, soon after came in and asked White for his keys. White said he had given them to another warder. Price immediately picked up a carving knife lying on the tabk and stabbed White just below the heart. The force of the blow was so great tiiat the knife blade entered White's body its full length. White di^d in about • twenly minutes aftevward. Price, who has been an inmate of the as;i'um 14 years, was considered perfect*/ harmless, and allowed complete libevtj both in and about the a^lum. White has besn warder several years, and was highly. respected by all who knew him. it is not known what Price's object was in asking for White's keys. The.c had bean a quarrel between the two,men p'ev-oasly. Another warder was in the kitchen when the sad event occurred, but he hai no opportunity of preventing it.