CRIMES AND OFFENCES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14658, 27 January 1912, Page 5

CRIMES AND OFFENCES.

-UNSUCCESSFUL UTIGAKI, EHOOTSTWO LAWYERS.' Press Association—By Tel.—Copyriftfit. PARIS, Jan. 26. Veran, a wine merchant; after losing • a case before a. Marseilles tribunal, exclaimed: "I am ruined," and fatally ■ shot with a revolver his rival's lawyer. ■ Tho Attendants sprang on Veran. wha wrenched himself free, shot another rival lawyer, and then attempted to commit suicide. Litigants and lawyers fled amid the panic. THE STARVATION DOCTOR, NEW YORK, Jan. 26. , At the Hazzard trial a bank cashier deposed to attempts by Mrs Hazzard to obtain money lying to the credit of Claire Williamson. Miss Conway, an Australian nurse, deposed to receiving letters at Honolulu, purporting to be from the Wilailmsons, declaring themselves detfght- , ed with their treatment at the sanatorium, i Doctors testified that Miss WTJiam- , son died of starvation, and the Haxzard treatment accelerated death. De- ■ fendant asserted that the doctors conspired against her system of healing, hence their testimony. GRUESOME DISCOVERY. NEW YORK, Jan. 26. A body, said to be that of a son of a millionaire of Portland, Oregon, was found in a trunk at- the railway station at Seattle. A baggage* man noticed blood oozing from the trunk days ago, but thouaht it contained a | Christmas turkey. The body was cut to pieces and packed in salt. It is stated that deceased acred as foreman ( in a Chinese laundry in Portland. Before the body was found, tie Chinaman had committed suicide. It is ' unknown if this had any connection ', with the tragedy. SERVING DRUNKEN MEN. Per Press Association NELSON. Jan. 2? iYances Aiimcton, wife of tLc heessee of the Telegraph rfoteJ Takaka, was fined £3 -.aid costs on Thursday, for supplying liquor to un intoxicated person. The decision in a v.njilar case against the licensee w.-s rereserved. The informations were the outcome of a recent traT> • which a man namcd Cassidy met hi . death. ' FATAL SKY-LARKTNG. CHRISTCHTRCH. Jan. 26. James Russell was committed for trial at Amberlev vesterdav on a charge of manslaughter, arising out of the death of Geo. Henrv Shaw, at Leithiield, lon December 29th. ' Accused was previcuslv acquitted on a similar charge hv Justices of the Poace The present informaiion was laid bv Shaw's father, and was heard bv Mr V. G. Day, S.M. '