DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1914, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

A DRIVER IN TROUBLE.

[Per Piikss Association.]

Wellington, March -I

Thomas Sheehan was committed for trial to-day on a charge of causing the death of Frank Bevell through failing to carry a light on the cart Sheehan was driving, and with which lie veil collided on Thursday night and was killed. Bail was allowed.

ALLEGED ILLEGAL OPERATION

An" 'a.id. Ma.»eh 4

For the third t'ww, a married woman, named .Jessie Anx'strong, was placed upon her bill at the Si preim? Court on a chart." 1 of having i-e'-'ji - "- ec! an illegal ope.a 'in On the two previous occasions the juvy had failed to agree. After a hiief rotirenient the jury ret I" nod a vei'hct of iioi auci n't t el was | ;H [.

MANSLAUGHTER CASE

Christchurch, March i

Alexander Thomson, »\iio wus eluiged with manslaughter in conw.t tion with the death of his motho", in consequence of a ruptured var"»«e vein, was committed for trial. A new feature was introduced into the ose by the evidence of a child, the brother of accused, who stated fiat after Mrs Thomson died Baxter, who lived with Mrs Thomson, told him to jay Alexander gave his mother a blow and knocked her down. The statement ,vas untrue.

Baxter, in evidence, stated that Thomson struck deceased four times, knocking her down against a box causing the rupture of a vein.

DEATH OF A WOMAN. Duuedin, March 4. The adjourned inquest on the body of Mrs Doocey, who died somewhat suddenly on Saturday evening, was continued to-day. It was supposed that, death was due to a fall sustained as the result" of deceased being bumped by a drunken man in the jtreet about midday on Saturday. After evidence by Kathleen Doocey, aged 12 years, who was walking ihead of her mother, and Alexander '.'nun, commercial traveller, who saw leceased fall. Dr. Roberts, hon. pathologist at the hospital, stated •hat he had made a post-mortem examination. There were no external marks. He regarded it as a case of spontaneous haemorrhage, and thought th-i fall bad nothing to do with it. I'lie case was hopeless from the start. A verdict was returned of death from natural causes, namely, intercerebral pressure, due to cerebral haemorrhage.