OFFENCES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9179, 8 October 1888, Page 10

OFFENCES.

A woman named Elizaboth Charlotte Allen, alias PhemisUi, alias Wong Sco Wong, has been committed for trial at Riverton for the manslaughter of her infant child. Tho woman lives with the Chinese at Round Hill, and the evidence showed that she went about helplessly intoxicated with tho child, which she neglected to feed or clothe properly. The medical testimony was to the effect that the child died from starvation. A stabbing affray occurred at Port Underwood on Sept. 22, when it is alleged that Edwin Baldick stabbed his brother William with a sheath knife in the side. The affray arose out of a family quarrel. The accused was arrested at Picton. The exact extent of the injury inflicted is not known, but it is believed to be serious. Early in July last Mr. Lindsay, farmer, Strath Taieri, Otago, attempted suicide by discharging a pistol at Ids head. While being conveyed to Dunedin Hospital he escaped into the bush, and was never discovered till Sept. 22, when his body was found in a creek a thousand yards from where he effected his escape. An inquest was held at the Wade on the 24th Sept. on the body of John P. Johnston, who committed suicide a few days ago by hanging. The evidence showed that deceased had been in the employ of E. Bond as a farm servant for a month or two, and he then seemed to be very peculiar in his manner and tired of life. Deceased was working in the garden up to half-past eleven a.m., and half an hour later he was found dead, hanging by the neck in his whare by a leather belt which had been made fast to a rafter. A verdict was returned that deceased committed suicide whilst temporarily insane. Deceased was a single man, and a Dative of Cuppaster, Scotland. He left behind him deposits in the Post Office Savings Bank to the amount of £100, together with other property valued at about £20, and his estate had gone into the possession of the Public Trustee. An extradition warrant was granted by Dr. Giles, Resident Magistrate, on the 29th September, in respect of Joseph Young, a young man who left Auckland on the 19th Sept. by the s.s. Rotomahana, for Sydney, having given valueless cheques to a number of tradesmen just previous to his departure. Mr. Howden, the watchmaker, was the last to be victimised by Young, who called at his shop a short time before the vessel sailed, and obtained a gold watch chain, and locket, for which he gave a cheque. This was presented at the Bank by Mr. Howden, when it was returned dishonoured, and Mr. Howden at once obtained a warrant and hurried down the wharf in company with Detective Tuohy, only to find that the steamer had left the wharf, and was in the stream. Young had, however, obtained a draft for £100 from the Bank of New South Wales here, upon the Sydney branch, and when he endeavoured to cash the draft in Sydney he was arrested. He was brought before the Sydney Court and remanded. The hearing of the charge against Mary Davies for attempted murder of her husband at Mount Pleasant, on the night of 18th August last, was resumed at the Police Court, Thames, on September 29, before 11. W. Northcroft, Esq., R.M. After the charge had been read by the clerk, Mr. Lush (who appeared for accused) asked His Worship whether he considered a prima facie case had been made out against the accused, which question was answered in the affirmative. Accused was then committed to take her trial at the next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court to bo held in Auckland, bail being allowed in two sureties of £100 each. During the afternoon Messrs. M. Mulligan and J. E. Hansen became bondsmen, and the accused woman was liberated from custody. A young woman named Jesrop, until recently a servant at the Clarendon Hotel, attempted to commit suicide at Napier on September 26 by taking a preparation of mercury used for cleaning plate. The girl was removed to the hospital, and it is believed that she will recover. Robert Stevenson, a well-known Auckland tradesman, was charged at the Police Court on the Ist October, before Messrs. McCausland and King. J.P.'s, that, having presented his petition to the Court of Bankruptcy at Auckland, on the 23rd of August, praying to be adjudged a bankrupt within the intent and meaning of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, he did, within four months of the presentation of such petition —namely, on the 19th of July, 1888, at Remuera, obtain property on credit, to wit, two steers, of the value of £14 15s, from Alfred Buckland and Sons, of Auckland, cattle salesmen, by a certain false representation and fraud —namely, by giving to the said Alfred Buckland and Sons a certain cheque for payment of money, signed by him upon tne National Bank of New Zealand, Newton, for the sum of £45 ss, in pretended payment of a certain account then duo by him to the said Alfred Buckland and Sons, with intent to defraud, and whereby the said Alfred Buckland and Sons were induced to sell and deliver to him the said two steers on crodit, he (the accused) not having paid for the same. Their Worships considered that a ■prima facie case had been made out, and they committed the accused to stand his trial at the next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court. Mr. Baume applied for bail, which was granted—prisoner in £100, and two sureties of £50 each. At, Masterton on Sept. 27, a man named Applin was committed for trial on a charge of making a false declaration on the occasion of marrying his deceased brother's widow. _ At the R.M. Court, Timaru, on the 26th Sept., a girl under 15 years of age, named Harris, was charged with attempting suicide by drinking carbolic oil. She explained that her parents had been behaving harshly to her for admitted misconduct, and she drank the stuff to give them a fright. When asked if she would behave better in future she made no reply, but to another question said she had no idea of taking another dose if her father behaves as he ought to. Her alternative would be leaving home. Captain Wray, who was on the Bench, advised her to go home and be a better girl, and dismissed the information.