DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1938, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

(PEE PBEBB ASSOCIATION.] MAN ELECTROCUTED I NELSON, April 28. Hector Ross Hillson, 32, single, whose mother resides at Napier, was ' electrocuted while welding a petrol storage tank at Port Nelson. He called out to a mate, who saw him with an electroid holder against the face and neck. Artificial respiration was tried without success. He had been in the employ of Cable az.d Co. for three months. YOUTH’S THEFTS BLENHEIM, April 27. Keith Edwin Staples, aged 18, a machinist, was committed to Borstal for a period not exceeding two years by Mr. T. E. Maunsell, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, on charges of the theft of £8 and £lO on separate occasions from Leonard Clarence Sutherland. He was also charged with a breach of his probationary license in removing to another district without notifying the probation officer. The police said that accused came to Blenheim on February 6 and went to stay with his aunt in Springlands. A month later he took £lO from the cashbox in his cousin’s bedroom, and later took a further £3O. An order was made for the restitution of the £2O that had not been recovered. THEFT AND ASSAULT. ASHBURTON, April 28. Albert Edward Lindcloff, labourer, to-day, pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence, on charges of breaking, entering and theft, and of assaulting David James Mclntyre, aged 69, causing bodily harm, on the night of April 12. Evidence showed that Mclntyre, a farmer near town, hearing a noise in the front room, went to investigate, being struck twice on -the head with a blunt instrument, and several times on the hand, one finger being broken. The only articles missing were 2/6 in money and three cartridges. Accused bad been employed by Mclntyre for three or four years Tip to c twelve months ago.