DOMINION ITEMS
(Per Press Association.)
POSTMAN’S THEFT
INVERCARGILL, August 10
Ralph Swan, aged twenty-three, pleaded guilty to the theft of two letters containing small sums, and wilfully detaining a number of postal packets from the Mataura Post Office. He was committed for sentence. Accused, who was employed as postman, said that he was too lazy and careless to deliver mails.
PRISONERS SENTENCED. CHRISTCHURCH, August 13. At. the Supreme Court to-day, Judge Adams sentenced Waller Patrick Murphy, alias Murray, to three years’ reformative, on charges of breaking, entering and theft. A youth of 17, who pleaded guilty to assault with intent on a female, was sentenced to five years at Borstal.
FOREMAN KILLED
AUCKLAND, August 13.
Arthur Rogers, employed at the erection of the new railway station as foreman to the contractors, Julian and Son., sustained fatal injuries through a wire rope catapulting a piece of wood, with which he was holding to take the strain until the rope was fastened to the winch. He died at the hospital from severe concussion.
CANVASSER CONVICTED. GISBORNE, August 13. William Henry Danvers, 22, pleaded guilty to three charges of theft by misappropriation, at the Police Court, and was admitted to probation for 12 months.
Accused was employed as a. book canvasser by a Dunedin firm, and the amounts unaccounted for were received at Woodville, Cambridge, and Matamata.
HORSES TAKE FRIGHT. WELLINGTON, August 22
Two draught horses, frightened by the dense crowd streaming out of the Athletic Park and down Rintoul Street, after the Poneke-Varsity match, broke away from the man leading them. They dashed off down the road among the crowd. One horse struck one young man, hurling him with violence several yards along the road, and badly injuring one of his legs. The other horse struck another man, hurling him headlong, and rather badly injuring him about the head in his fall to the roadway. The horses were stopped and caught before any further damage resulted. The wonder is that more people were not injured. This was due, however, to the horses keeping to the middle railways.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1928, Page 2
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