SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1902, Page 2

SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, this day.

A woman named Margaret Sickles, living with her husband at Green island, was found dead in her bedroom last eveningl. Her husband first saw her at half-past four in the afternoon lying' across her bed. He did not disturb her, thinking she was asleep, until about 10 o'clock in the evening1, when he discovered she was dead. An inquest will be held. NAPIER, this day. The following cases were dealt with at "the Supreme Court this morning: Teao Kati Tohara, breaking and entering, twelve months' imprisonment; Andrew Jacob, horse-stealing, to come up for sentence when called upon (the prisoner being in an advanced state of consumption); James Swan, ; theft of a cheque, to come up for sentence when called upon and to pay £11. The Hawke's Bay Cricket Association is unable to raise the guarantee of £150 for the visit of the English team, owing to obligations in connection with the engagement of Trott as coachWELLINGTON, this day. Mr Justice Edwards sentenced G. W. Palmer, With a long array of aliases, to two years' imprisonment on five charges of horse-stealing- at Wanganui, and Michael Power to three months' imprisonment for perjury, cumulative upon the term he is now servingl. At the inquest on Henry Fuller, who died in the police cells, a verdict of death from failure of the heart's action was returned. CHPJSTCHUECH, this day. In the Supreme. Court to-day in a case against Matthew Barnett for keeping a betting house, the jury after retiring for forty minutes, returned a verdict of not guilty. "VVANGANUI, Monday.

The adjourned inquest into the circumstances of the death of Samuel Tosland, who was found dead in bed on I.larch 19, was held to-day. The inquest* was adjourned from March 20 in order that the contents* of the stomach might be analysed. The Government analyst reported that there was sufficient strychnine to cause death. The jury returned a verdict that deceased died by poisonirg, but that there was no evidence as to how it was administered.

, An inquest was held to-day on the body of Denis Cronin. From the evidence it appeared that the man, wh? v\as crossing the bridge, lost his heal ar the sight of the train, which was approaching, and either fell or jumper! a distance of 30ft to the bed of the river. He was taken to Wanganui Hospital, where he died- A verdict of death frcai natural causes, accelerated by shock, was returned. The engine-driver was exonerated from .ill blame.

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