ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2762, 12 January 1895, Page 4

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

A' fatal buggy accident occurred at Auckland on Thursday. While Mrs Pullan, wife of Mr Pollan, of Pullan & Armitage, was driving a four-wheeled buggy to a picnic at St. Holier’a Bay, the horse bolted going down the incline of Mount Eden road. Mrs Pullan was thrown out and was cut and bruised. Mrs Arthur Woollams and her daughter Nellie and'Miss Hansen jumped out,'while the horse with three children, daughters of Mrs' Woollams, in the buggy galloped on ti Auckland and-Was secured at the top of Wellesley’ Street by a horseman without injury to the buggy or the children who stayed in the trap. Miss Hansen, who jumped out, died at the hospital of fracture' of the Skull. Mrs Woollams also 'received serious injuries to the skull, and Miss WoOllams is severely bruised. Nelson Miller, a Single man, aged about 35, committed suicide at Napier on Thursday" morning by shooting himself. %ith a revolver through the right templie at SoMerniug’s 'restaurant. Miller was staying there since last Christchurch races, and though inclined to gamble he was 'known 'US man. No reason is assigned. A small sum of money wais found’ in his pockets, together with g savings bank receipt for £6. j ' In the Ha wera* District Court J. S. Lett, a~ jockey, was sentenced to a monthV imprisonment and 15 lashes for indecent assault. j Atthe Christchurch Police Court? Jatnels Nelson was fined £6 and Edward For ward £1 tor laying totalisator odds at this meeting of the Canterbury' Trotting Club. John Reid, formerly of Timaru, whp was employed as a’ fireman and greaser in the Lyttelton Harbour Board’s cool Store*, was missed on Tuesday night. He went on duty at midnight,qoite sober, and was left in charge' at 12.45 by the >man going off duty. At 8 a.m; 1 the- engineer, J. Burnip, came on duty, foohd the fires out and the engine stopped for Want-of steam. The lamps wefo 'stUl burning. The police were commtiniCated with, also) the wife cjf the missing man'.’ It Was aScertained that Reid had been" Very of latk, owing tb hi* daughter having gone on a visit to Sydney with'some friends, and while ; there contracted a ’serious illness which-’ necessitated her being left at a Sydney hospital. ’This preyed on Reid’p mind, and when leaving home on Tuesday night he threatened to drown himself. At 2 a m. his wife visited him with some supper, and in reply to Reid’s enquiries, > said' that she' was 1 Unable to sleep " after ‘ what l ‘he J had I’’said. 1 ’’said. ' She 1 remained with him half 1 an hour; when : be told her 'to go home. Before' leaving' ■he”begged him Uot lo'do anything rash and told him to remember the little ones he ~ would' leave behind if he did away with himself. That was the' 'last seen v bf him.'" The" engine house is a few yards from the wharf. The police dragged "the harbour. Reid was one of the lifeboat crew at Timaru in the Wrecks -of the 14th May, 1882, - and received a medal for' distinguished bravery. Much sympathy is felt for the- widow and family. On Thursday - morning Reid’s body was recovered. He had tied a piece of iron piping, ■ weighing ' about 701 b, to Ms -neck by a handkerchief, which he had torn in halves for the purpose. j