AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13938, 21 December 1908, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

mwm -— ~~ 111 MURDERED IN BED. : sv V^! ■ ■ —. " :'tf® A MYSTERIOUS GRIME. Further particulars reached Auckland b* yesterday's mail regarding the recent".i^llM gedy at Armidale (N.S.W.), when a young woman named Johanna Kelly was found T->--dead in her bed at the Central Hotel" her room-mate, also a young woman, be; ing subsequently arrested on suspicion andsß} charged with having murdered the ed. When the tragedy was discovered thife household was alarmed, and without delay-'* " a • message was despatched to the load police station. Th© sergeant and aW~Tv stable were promptly on the. scene, and a hasty examination showed-that the decease# 1 ! ed'.s throat kid been cut with eome sharps* 1 ®! instrument, the carotid artery being parently completely severed. Klipi cd. ' ' ■" An inquest on the victim took place two*? • days later. ■ ' : Sirs. Swain, licensee of the Central Ho<* • tel, stated that she. was informed of. the'' Occurrence by Agnes O'Leary knocking at the door, saying : " Oh, Mrs. Swain, com« : S quickly; Hannah has burst a blood-yes-9 eel." Hushing to the room, witness found VIV deceased lying on the bed, the face coveredwith blood. Although she had a candle"* in her hand she could have seen anyone *■' " 1 in the room. When deceased saw Mr*/' J Swain she was alive, and out her hands . to her, looking' I imploringly, but could : not speak and . died a few minutes 'after' pp Agnes O'Leary the murdered ' eiriV4 '! room-mate, told witness that, she was & awakened by a strange noise, and saw. C man in the room dressed in gray clothes ' and clean shaven, who on seeing her move" made a dash for the window, and. climbed out. She then went over to deceased,whip''! was making a strange noise. * Agtfes~«' - O'Leary had changed her clothes after the®®! alarm had been given, but Mrs. Swain' could not say she saw blood on any of her clothing. Mrs. ; Swain added that when* K she went into the room the window was" up 18in, sufficiently t wide to admit a" man : 4-S getting through. • Dr. Scott stated that he found blood i sprayed on the cai-pet about 4ft'from, the' i. wound in the girl's neck. Agnes O'Leary. accounted for the blood on her garments by saying she was sitting on the side of the & bed, holding up deceased. Though J blood' was on her petticoat, there was, none on her under garments, and as she ; was sitting on the bed he would expect to find blood"' all over the garments, also on her chest and arms, but no blood on the clothing' wherti" lie expected to find it. . He examined ■ O'Leary, and foun~ blood stains on a finger.O'Leary produced a penknife at Superinten-■ 'B ! dent Cameron's request. The big : blade.wjg' blunt, but the little blade had been recent-" ly sharpened. It had marks like blood f <jallsffi it. ■ ■:' ■ 1" • .*tS?S SHATTERED BY DYNAMITE. A terrible accident occurred at a fishipg ground near ;• the old .' jetty . at : Carnarvon, .West Australia, last week. ; v Two young men, Duncan Meßae and WiJ&KSj liam Fleming, went out fishing', in a boat, ... taking with them some plugs •of dynamite. ' Oh: arrival att the fishing' ground Mcßaelighted the fuse attached to a plug of dyna-... .? mite ; butswas under the that' it had not ca-ught alight. Fleming shouted fi 7 to him to throw it overboard, ,'aji it was - alight, and at the same time knocked the" plug out of Mcßae's hand. The plug exploded instantaneously with." this action, and Mcßae's ' and Fleming's- *.»- right hands were shattered. g In '.addition.-.'o to this injury ; Mcßae's face and eyes? wet? considerably damaged and his cnest wn*'J torn. Fleming managed to tie the injured , wrists with fishing lines, and then the two men succeeded in reaching the* shore, and -v ''V made their way ;, back £to towu, having to walk about a, mile. On their arrival at the 5 '"V , hospital the right > arm of was amputated below the elbow, while Mcßae's left eye was extracted, n HisVright eye is thought to be injured, but his chest wounds • are not serious. ' • ■ • TWO MEN CRUSHED TO DEATH. - A married man, with three.'children,• ! named Fred. Wilk's, and Wm.' Radcliffe. a single man, were riding up the 'Mills United underlie on-the bow of a-' skip I (states the § Charters Towers correspondent of the' Sydney Morning Herald, writing on the .15th , s , inst.). and an empty timber truck.wtf.coming down the parallel line. > J> The!rope\l,:V broke near the timber truck, which' kept the rails for 100 ft, but just below No. 4 flat, it leaped on to, the other line and.feU s <m the skip going up," and' crushed I both'.Tnen )&>>;_-• death. * It was an extraordinary ? accident.Had the track been one second later the men on the skip would have escaped. * ■ ===== : ecclesiastical; pp . CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS. . Special services in connection • with .Christmas week were held in a. number of the city; ; churches yesterday, and iu' several case* .' beautiful floral decorations -had; been, ar- 1 " ranged by willing workers. In the Anglican jj', churches the services were preliminary, and the Christmas celebrations and the offertory ;; ■ solos were selected as suitable to' ChristiMMy: •; tide. •Revival services were held .at _ Auckland ' Central Mission,' and • the featnrc» of tho evening was the musical services bj<? • the large . choir ; and orchestra. ; WMm anthems '." Tarry With Me" and "''Joy; to 7 the ''were „ sting, the soloists .being" v Mrs. Maeky, Mr. K. Atkinson, and. ,A~ Rowe. Children's Anniversay Day, was ob-f served ;at the Methodist - Mission,, 1® serwees being, specially applicable, to tht": younger members of the congregation.'''; *, _• ■ — .) I'VjfiiM . 1 . PEOPLE'S MISSION. - Appropriate services for the C.^irtn^:: festival season were held in the Opera iio|i^ f yesterday; in the ' presence of large aua-. .ences.. r The subject ' of the sermon. " The Kingship of Christ. _Mastefif ; Fiatt rendered " The Heavenly Song, -- l Miss Willis ;>■:; "What Will You Do «»»; Jc'sus?" ' ' .'•The ; Boxing picnic ; was for Lake Takapufti, and , all V mission, aa ; , herents are invited. ■ . . , • •?*. • \ ■ — y' v ' si " ' ' : ■ ■ -. ■■ . CENTRAL MISSION.- ' Bright services t were held und»r^*^^p auspices of the Central Mission . Sftfeßgrafc the addresses delivered by ; the, miss* (Mr. Leafe) bearing directly on in" - the Saviour. - At' the-- evening > me /gU'' His Majesty's .Theatre. . Mr. • C., A™assisted by a large mille chorus pa£y,-gS? " Nazareth." Miss Maeky and Mr. £Ngg also gave selections. . . , ' The Christmas tree for. poor , announced for Tuesday next. A mission will bo .commenced on Wedscsa.j, , evening. . • ' ■. -• ■.. ■ — ;-jpap '••• ■'■.■ iaKosora*.;;ij«jggjSHM At the rooms of the Auckland cal Society. Mutual .Life weekly public lecture was delivered ■%&&& f S. Stuart, under the title. ..*• Great 1 or Ilium iliati, and Their Followers. , ; .AU^|^| ligions, the lecturer said, however.pure V' may be at their inception, rapdilv deg f rate " into mere form and ccr<-.:iopy. interesting discussion, followed. ■ '=_====== •' ;^;S ... ; . ■.■■■• w(J?SafG»MBwHBwK