DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 September 1928, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association.)

FRAUD CHARGE DISMISSED. NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 28.

Stanley Roy Montgomerie, who was arrested in Auckland, was found not guilty by Justices on a charge of obtaining £225 from James Cameron bj r falsely representing that he owned and had authority to sell the Dominion Billiard Saloon at New Plymouth.

BOOKMAKER FINED.

WELLINGTON, September 28.

Ralph E. Thompson pleaded guilty to carrying on business as a bookmaker, and was fined £5O with costs. The police evidence was that he was doing a big trade, and had £214 on him when arrested.

KILLED AFTER FUNERAL. DUNEDIN, September 29

The police are advised from Naseby that Cuthbert Pyle, when returning in a motor car from a funeral, was killed outright, his car crashing into a bridge near Kyeburn. Henry Scherp, a passenger, was seriously injured, and two others less seriously. All three are in the hospital at Naseby.

FREEZERS QUARREL. GORE, September 29.

As a sequel to a heated argument at the Mataura freezing works, yesterday afternoon, a youth, William Heywood, is alleged to have attacked another youth, Peter Dore, both of Mataura, with a butcher’s knife. Dore received a severe wound in the thigh, but is progressing favourably at the Gore Hospital.

MOTORIST KILLED.

MASTERTON, September 28.

The adjourned inquest concerning the death of Cyril Roland Gurr, aged 23 years, who was killed in a motor smash on the Carterton-Masterton road on September 15, was continued to-day before Mr E. G. Eton, District Coroner. The verdict was that deceased met his death by being accidentally killed in a car driver by Cyril Roland Hausmann.

MOTOR CYCLIST INJURED. WELLINGTON, September 28.

Injuries which may necessitate the amputation of his left leg, were sustained to-night by Escar Webb, aged 20, when he collided with a motor car while riding a motor cycle in front of the Grand Opera House. Nearly half of his left leg was stripped, and a serious compound fracture and a severed artery being sustained. Webb is a leadlight maker, and resides at Gl, Brussell Street, Miramar.

DEATH AT WORK

DUNEDIN, September 23

Robert Joseph Todd, aged 53, a resident of Ravensbourne, died suddenly while engaged in his duties at the cement works at Pelichet Bay at 7 o’clock this morning.

At the inquest held at the Morgue this afternoon, before H. W. Bundle, Coroner, evidence was given by Dr Reid, -who examined the body, and Patrick Cassidy, who was with deceased at the time of the occurrence. Todd had been employed at the works for 18 years, as cement burner. The verdict was that death was due .to heart failure following on degeneration of the heart muscles.