ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.
Robert Eeece, of the Salvation Army, Auckland, robbed a fellow-lodger (Edward Lyons) in a boarding-house of a £IBO deposit receipt and a quantity of jewellery. What is believed to have been an attempt at suicide was brought to light in Wellington on Wednesday. About 9 o'clock a vetertinary surgeon named Stanford was discovered in a comatose state, and on Dr Rawson's services being brought into requisition, it was found that the man was suffering from the effects of a heavy dose of laudanum. The sufferer was taken into the surgery and on the stomach pump being applied, a quantity of poison was removed and the man was soon out of danger and removed to the Police Station. A telegram received from Ohinemutu, at Auckland, last Thursday night says : " Yesterday morning Constable Abrams arrested a native named Meihana, a lunatic, for having murdered a native woman named Te Tukima at Teo Nga yesterday afternoon. Her body was afterwards buried, but the conitable had it exhumed and an inquest will be held. The murderer had at one time been m an asylum. On being questioned the reafson he gave for the deed was that a spirit told him to kill the womin." At an inquest on the body of John Webby, found dead at Oriental Bay, (Wellington), on Wednesday, a verdict of accidental death was returned. Evidence was given that deceased was subject to epileptic fits. A case of infanticide occurred at Taeru, (Wellington), on Wednesday. A young girl named Annie Anderson was confined of a child, which was subsequently found dead with marks of violence on its body.
A telegram from Blenheim states that a station hand, named Stokes, was killed on Thursday in Awatere, by a fall from his horse. He was a bad horseman, and subject to fits. At the Supreme Court, Dunedin, yesterday Maria Scannell was sentenced to twelve months for larceny ; Lizzie Massie received three months' hard labor, and Margaret Massey was sent to the Industrial School for two years.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1203, 12 July 1884, Page 3
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336ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC. Temuka Leader, Issue 1203, 12 July 1884, Page 3
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