OFFENCES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7480, 9 November 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

OFFENCES.

CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH

Early on the 2nd November a young woman named Mary Ksther Anne McCarthy, a, domestic servant in the employ of Mr. J. Patterson, omnibus proprietor, Mount Roskill, gave birth to a male child under the following circumstances r— On Sunday, Ist November, she went out for a walk, and returned in the evening. On calling her about a quarter to six on Monday morning Mrs. Patterson, receiving no reply, entered the bedroom, and found the young woman up and partly dressed. On the floor was an infant in a large pool of blood. Dr. Stockwell was sent for, and was in attendance in about an hour. On examination he found that the infant was a fully matured child, but quite dead. From the surroundings he concluded that the child had breathed. The umbilical cord had been ruptured ; but ho could not form an opinion then as to whether the infant was alive after birth. An inquest was opened on Tuesday before Dr. Philson and a jury of six, of whom Mr. James Hill was chosen foreman. Constable Dews represented the police, and impanelled the jury at Mount Eden. As the unfortunate .voman was not in a fit state to be examined, it was decided to adjourn the enquiry to the 12th November, and that a post mortem examination of the infant should be made in the meantime. The young woman's parents reside at Bombay, and the father of the child, she states, is also named McCarthy, but she is unable to state what occurred during her confinement, as she says she was quite stupid. She had been only four and a-half months in Mrs. Patterson's eervice.

At the Dunedin City Court, Wong Tan was fined £100 for smuggling opium. A young man named Richard Ilackett was brought up on the 31st October from the Thames by Constable Bullen, having been

sentenced to four months' i m n r ;. nn Mount Eden Gaol for larceny. P ' ' lment i» Wm. Rex Rose, lately acquitted at tinganui on one chart-, 0 V arrested upon another. The".-!, h|, -M of forging the Km( . 0 f G H»,T* '« solicitor, to a cheque for £() 'II h la °, remanded for eight days, ' ' a " beeu A detec-ive h:,:i left:' Dunedin f bourne to bring hack William DinLcharge of omh. zzlemcnt from his em°?' ° n 1 Marshall and Copland. l Ploy erSi On the 4th November Plnin- l„t he> P stable Herbert arrested a youns m,, W. F. Baker, at SUnSord'.* MoW^ sonby, on a charge of eailj.-zxi,,,,, ' on> sums amounting to a total of roq Un ' ll 7 property ot his employers, Messrs. \i 11,8 son and Co., House and Land Acpn'r alc °' nl, Hokitika Tainui, a Maori ohipf p o s ". suicide at Arahuri 011 the l!Jth'() l .[ n ? 1,^e: l Ave a.m. He hanged himself in the" m" at meeting-house. ori Margaret Brown was Police Court, Dunedin, on October ]-• 1 ' ! " the murder of her mother, Oeonnni'i' W '" 1 at South Dunedin. The evidence wa " U .' er > a repetition of that at the accused was committed for trial. " ' " 8

A young foreigner named i J arn ; ag xr Schmaranz committed suicide at \V -i] 1 ou Oct. 26 by taking arsenic. Jl e a friend that he had taken half a small "f 6 ' full, which he had in his hand, and li-,f live minutes to live. He left his friend's h D ' and was found shortly after under a t ° ÜB -°' Cambridge Avenue, writhing in a^ony^r,' 3 died shortly after he was discove a Financial difficulties are the cause oflu act. At the inquest on the body, the •, returned a verdict of " Suicide while „ ing from temporary insanity." '' ;r ' At the annual meeting of the Dun Caledonian Society, during a discussion on m" 1 balance-sheet, it was stated that it was d h certain that the defalcations on th.. , , , ' the Secretary amounted to about i'l'J.X) j-/' 1 extended over some years. The f" at present in a lunatic n.syluin. The r " '! meeting is expected to be a pronpproua and from communication received so lr „ e the bast alh ot(.H in Australia are exp-cteil 01 F;r permitting Sunday trad in?, a ii niei j: publican was line 1 £5 and costs, aud f)oj - j costs, for permuting drunkenness in y licensed house. " A young man named Percy ,J. C»rm=,i w.13 committed for trial at CliriHtchurch" • November 0, charged with stealing » mil watch and chain belonging to Nathaniel Tapling. For the defence it is state', that the watch was given him by Tapling, who wa3 druiilc, to take care for him.