VIOLENT CRIMES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13594, 14 May 1908, Page 5

VIOLENT CRIMES.

THE CHICAGO HORROR. Press Association-Bv Telegraph-Copyright NEW YORK, May 12. In connection with the La Porte horror, a doctor declares that one victim win grasping a. hunch of man's hair, sugg?st'ng that Mm (xuinnu-i; had an accomplice.vVitiHfvst.s aan- a man named Lamphera running from the burning farm-'nouibe. Thirty-thousand persons visit the scene fairy. Many reporters arc bivouaeing near .the place at night. Another corpse lias been unearthed NEW YORK, May 13. A gold-crowned tooth was found in it-he debris of the farmhouse, and it is believed that it belonged to Mrs Guinness indicating that she perished in the five.. Two dozen surgical scissors, two surgical knives and a dirk were found among the ashes in a cellar, which it is believed was used to murder and dismember the victims in. THE LATE ASSASSINATIONS. Received 11.50 p.m., May 13th. LISBON, May 13. The Portuguese Premier states that the enquiry into the assassinations of King Carlos and the Crown Prince revealed the fact that, no suspicion rested on any one except Duica Dacosta who was killed on the spot. 4 Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH,. May 13. William Robinson has been arrested, charged with -the manslaughter of his mother, who died from neglect at Sydenham in pitiable circumstances.

DUNEDIN, May 13. Cornish was- (Jiarged with' manslaughter at the Police Court tin's morning, and remanded to Balclittha, to be brought up on May 20th. Bail was allowed, accused in £2OO and two sureties of £IOO each. At Port Channel's Police Court to-day Joseph Coddoi, fisherman, was charged with having commitited manslaughter on April 18 by causing the death of AlexEdgar McPhee, Alfred McPhee, Wm. Mothers and Robert Slater. The charge was the result of a collision between the Lady Roberts and Matakana in the lower harbour. Evidence on the lines of that given at the Magisterial enquiry was given by Captain Cashman (Lady Roberts), Captain Gardner, Richard Morgan (engineer of the Lady Roberts), James Dalley Mait-; land, Hector Peters and Ernest Haslett Birchall, after which the hearing was ad-, journed'until Tuesday next.