CRIMES AND FATALITIES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1995, 16 January 1890, Page 4

CRIMES AND FATALITIES.

Melbourne, Jan. 6. Frederick Blyth, a young laboring naan, was arrested at North Melbourne on the sth on a charge of causing the death of Sarah McGee, a young married woman. It appears that the two met in a public house, when they were both under the influence ot drink. McGee asked Blyth to shout, but he refused, and when she left the hotel she followed him, even to the house of his stepfather. She expressed her intention of following him further, and then, according to a neighbor, Blyth struck her and knocked her down. An hour later McGee was found dead, about thirty yards from where she is said to have been struck. There were no marks of violence on the body beyond a few bruises on the back of the head. The deceased, who lived with her husband, Wm. McGee, of East Melbourne, was of intemperate habits

A fatal fight occurred at Footscray last week. Two men, Ashton McDonald. forty-five years old, and Jas, 'Wbiienide, thirty-eight, were in the bar of t!.e Rising Sun Hotel, on the Geelong road, and had a quarrel. After some words had passed the the latter walked away, and McDonald followed, and struck him on the head from behind. Whiteside then fell, and McDonald kicked and punched him nil he was restrained by the ouloi.kers. When Whiteside was lifted up it was found that he was dead.

A shocking accident happened at the factory of the Standard Hat Company in North Fitzroy on the 2nd, when a girl, Emily Adams, sixteen years of age, became entangled in the machinery, and was mangled to death in a terrible way. She was in the carding-room with several of the other employes, and was sitting on one of the belts, which, as the machinery was not in work, was suspended by a piece of string from above the shafting, which was still in motion. Her weight broke the string, the belt fell upon the pulley, and she was rapidly whirled to the ceiling. Her companions raised an alarm, and the engine was stopped with all possible haste, but when the unfortunate girl was extricated it was found that both her less had been severed, and that her right arm was badly fractured. She was alive when rescued, but died shortly afterwards.

A terrible accident occurred at Broken Hill Proprietary Mine on the 4th. Henry Braine, sixty, was engaged in wheeling some iron pots full of molten slag from the furnace to the cage of the dump, where the pots are emptied. While he was emptying one pot another pot had been run out and left standing about seven yards behind him. Braine then started to drag his pot back to the furnace, and as he walked backward he did not see the full pot, with which he collided. He overbalanced himself and falling on to the pot upset it, and the m dten metal poured all over the poor fellow, burning him in a frightful manner. His ran to his assistance, tore off his burning clothes, and sent for the doctor. Braine must have been in great agony, but the shock was evidently so great that it completely paralysed him, and he did not make a moan. On the arrival of the doctor morphia was injected, and Braine was removed to the Hospital, where he died in a little more than two hours after admission. Jan. 7, James Windower, a resideut of North Melbourne, had a dangerous encounter with a burglar early yesterday morning. Being awakened by discovering a burglar in the hmuse, he endeavored to hold the man until assistance arnvea The ’’urgiar thereupon fiercely attacked, him with a knife, si abb n him in four places, one wound penetrating the lung, The burglar had his boots ofi, and left them behind him in the house.