A MYSTERY CLEARED UP.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10301, 8 March 1905, Page 3

A MYSTERY CLEARED UP.

About nine months ago a farmer named Richard O'Neil, living near Geraldine (Canterbury)", suddenly disappeared', and, although the bush and country m the vicinity of his home were searched, no trace of him could be found.. He left lv. s home at 8 a.m. with a double-barrelled gun and some lunch, the family thinking that he was going to his usual occupation of gorse-giubbing, and not knowing that he had taken the gun until it was missed later m the day. The man was last seen going m the direction of Four Peaks, with the gun ii> his possession. Shortly after this a warrant was issued by the police for the arrest of O'Neil on a charge of alleged arson, and it -was publicly believed: he was m the North Island or Australia. .This, luts been proved! false by the finding of tlie body of the missing man, with' hits gun lying beside him, on the Sugar Loaf Hill on Mr J. M. Barker's run, near Four Peaks station. A young man mimed James Evans came across the body last Wednesday evening. It was m a very decomposed; state, but was easily identified by the shnpe of the head and the appearance of the hair and whiskers. There was a hole through the clothing, andl a gunshot wound- in the region of the stomach. Young Evans m December last found a hat about ten chains from where he found the body, and jokingly remarkedl that he had found tracks of O'Neil. The public, however, only laughed at him, saying that O'Neil was. far away from Geraldine by that time. An inquest was held at Gerallinc on Friday, beforte Colonel Moore, ActingCoroner. The jury returned a verdict tliat deceased met his death by a gunshot wound, but wehther self-inflicted, or caused by accildbnt there was nothing to show. -

A distressing accident liappened the other day to a well-known Melbourne dentist. Mr Thos. Skinner was extracting a tooth from a patient, when the latter tlirew up his anus, and struck the forceps, the point of which entered the dentist's right eye, and penetrated the ball. Mr Skinner was taken to the Eye and Ear Hospital, where it was found that tlie sight of his eye had been totally destroyed, aaid that there was a danger of his losing tlie sight, of his other eye.

At the Police Court at Timaru, Plulip Wirth, proprietor of W.irth's circus, was fined £2 and costs for having assaulted a man at tlie. circus iiu Timaru last Monday night. The defence -was that. the man m question had got among some of tlie circus fittings, where he had no right to be, and as he would not leave when asked to do so, he hud to be forcibly, ejected. The costs im tlie case totalled £3 ls 6d, including 10s 6d for a new hat for the per. sonjissaulted; his hat having been damaged "7n the scuffle.

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