DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 June 1930, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

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BAD LANGUAGE.

HAMILTON, June 17

For using what the police described as the vilest language imaginable, William Murray Aitken, middle aged, with a previous record, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment at the Magistrate’s Court to-day.

BUSHMAN KILLED NELSON, June 16.

Cornelius Liddy, aged 27 years, single, whose mother lives at Rakaia, met with a. fatal bushfelling accident at Anatima, in the Takaka district. The deceased was pinned on a stump by a fallen tree, and it was impossible to release him until the tree was cut through.

BRUTAL FIREMAN

NEW PLYMOUTH, June 16

Michael Joseph Cronin, -a fireman on the Hororata, at the Brakewater Hotel, asked Thomas Shane, the ship’s cook, to shout for him. Shane agreed. A second time a similar request was made and Shane agreed. A third time Cronin asked for more, but this time Shane refused, so Cronin broke his nose with a blow of the fist. To-day Cronin was fined £2 fox' assault.

BOOKMAKER FINED. WAIMATE, Juno 17

“I do not propose to send defendant to prison, though that is going to be considered by the courts, if bookmaking isn’t stopped by substantial fines,” said Magistrate C. R. Orr Walker, in fining Richard Yesberg, billiard saloon keeper £250, in default three months’ imprisonment. The Magistrate remarked that it wasn’t denied Yesberg had been carrying on bookmaking in a big way for six years.

SHOPPING ACCIDENT. HAMILTON, June 17. £l4O general, and £l7 special damages were awarded to Mrs Ann Bailey, Frankton, at the Hamilton Supreme Court. The action was brought against J. R. McKenzie Ltd., fancy goods shop proprietor, Hamilton, as the result of injuries received through the accidental falling of a ladder in the shop. The claim was £2OO general and £l7 special damage's. It was while plaintiff was being served in the shop that a ladder with a young man on it, fell on her.

THAMES TRAGEDIES. THAMES, June 17. Four tragedies occurred to Thames folk yesterday.

The body of Robert Kirk, a Thames chemist, was found in a car at Taupo. Thomas Donaldson, an elderly iron worker, shot himself on a verandah al. his home at eight o’clock last night.

At nine thirty, news came through from Rotorua, that Richard Angell, a resident of Mackay Street, Thames, was killed in a bush accident. At midnight, Theophilus McCollum, a well-known Thames man, died suddenly. INDECENT ASSAULT. HAMILTON, June 16. Robert Arthur Samways was charged with indecent assault at Huntly on a boy, and was found guilty at the Hamilton Supreme Court to-day. Sentence was postponed. HAMILTON, June 17.

Robert Arthur Samways, 24 years on a charge of indecent assault on a boy at Huntly, was sentenced to three years’ reformative detention at the Supreme Court to-day. His Honor remarked that it was hard to know what to do with accused, who had started a life of crime. Samways was convicted of housebreaking (eight, charges) in 1919.