DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1928, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association.)

BABY STRANGLED.

INVERCARGILL, August 10

A distressing accident, resulting in the death of an infant, occurred at Glenham on Thursday, when Joan Sheila McDonald, aged 12 months, Glenham, fell from her pram and was accidentally strangled. Mrs. McDonald found the child half out of the pram, caught by her dress, which was wound so tightly around the child s neck that, although it was at once removed, the child was already dead. DEATH IN SCHOOL. INVERCARGILL, August 10. While at school on Thursday morning, Edna Hartle, aged six years, a pupil at the South School, was seized with an epileptic fit and collapsed. She was removed to her home, where she died some hours later. y Her death was reported to the Coroner, but it is understood that an inquest will not be necessary.

It is stated that the child had previously been receiving medical treatment at Balclutha, where she showed symptoms of epileptic trouble. YOUTH’S CLAIM FAILS. AUCKLAND, August 10. In the case in which Arthur Frederick Rose, aged 18, claimed £lOOO damages against Grinter Bros., contractors, for the loss of fingers through the explosion of a detonator, the jury at the Supreme Court to-day, after twelve minutes retirement, returned a verdict for the defendants, who, out of consideration for the plaintiff’s father, did not ask for costs. It was alleged on behalf of the plaintiff that the detonators had been negligently handled and stored, but witnesses for the defence denied this, and contended that the detonators may have been stolen by someone. BUCKLEY’S MISDEEDS. TAUMARUNUI, August 10.

Further charges against John Leslie Buckley of breaking, entering and theft from the premises of the Taumarunui Sash and Door Factory and Farmers’ Auctioneering Coy., in July, were heard this afternoon at the Police Court. The former charge against accused was dismissed, while on the charges relating to the Auctioneering Coy., Buckley was committed for trial at Hamilton on August’2B. A further charge was made against the accused of stealing and converting to his own use a Packard car from Remuera, Auckland, which eventually was found abandoned near Taumarunui. Accused pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, to be concurrent with his present sentence.