Accidents, Offences etc

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2018, 22 November 1886, Page 2

Accidents, Offences etc

Per Press Association. Thames Nov 20. An elderly mm named Amos Fisher attempted to commit suicide last night, by taking two ounces of carbolic acid. He now lies at the hospital in a prec'rioui condition, and but little hope is enter, tained of his recovery. Ho has been drinking heavily of late. WOODVILLE, NOV, 2). Joseph Bell, auperinUn lent of tho Ang. lican Sunday School was charged bofora Mr Hall, J.P., with attempted rape on a giil, and with indecently assaulting two others in the vestry on Sunday, Oct. 31st, The children are about ten years of age, He was remanded till Monday. Wellington, Nov. 20. Arrived Timaru, ship, Captain Fullerton, 10(5 days fro n London. Twelve days ago during a heavy gale all hands wero ordered to shorten sail. One of the crew refused, and the mate Bowling, proccodsd to fc eh him from the forecastle, whon the sailor struck the mate in the left breast with a sheath knif inflicting a tcrribls wounl. lie was about to make a second attempt when another sailor secured the woul 1-be murderer. From intelligence brought ashore, there seems scarcely any hope of the mite’s recovery. Later. W. Williams is the seaman who stabbed the nnte of the Timaru, and the wound was inflicted on the right side immediately over the lungs. There is little donbt William s would have killed Bowling,] had not a second sailor interfered. The injured man has so far recovered as to bu ab’o to walk. Accused has been brought ashore and lodged in the lockup.