Saturday 15 January 2022

Emmeline (1843-1/1/1900) and Thomas (1838-30/9/1922) Gallaway.

The surname of Emmeline and Thomas is spelt in two slightly different ways by the newspapers of the time and also in Dunedin City Council cemetery records.  I have chosen one way of spelling but the other may appear in the newspaper stories below.


FUNERAL NOTICE. 

The Friends of Mr THOMAS GALLAWAY are respectfully invited to attend the Funeral of his late WIFE, which will leave his Residence, Bradshaw street, South Dunedin, THIS DAY (TUESDAY), January 2, at 1.15 p.m., for the Church of England Cemetery South. 

COLE & SPRINGER, Undertakers, 152 George street.   -Otago Daily Times, 2/1/1900.


Southern Cemetery, Dunedin.  DCC photo.


OUR OTAGO LETTER.

DUNEDIN, January 4. 

A SHOCKING TRAGEDY. 

The New Year in Dunedin was ushered in with one of those shocking tragedies which people shrink from contemplating. In a squalid three-roomed cottage standing back from the street from which it is separated by a neglected garden, lived Thomas Galloway, a fitter in the Hillside Railway Workshops, and his wife Emmeline. Though their life was to outward appearances one of unruffled calm, it cannot have been a happy one. The wife had been addicted to drink. This weakness she overcame about eighteen months ago. It was followed, however, by a probably more terrible failing. She took to the consumption of chlorodyne, and became a victim to this habit to such an extent that she is said to have consumed more than £6 worth per month. Whether this is so or not, it is a fact that chlorodyne bottles preponderated largely, in an untidy heap of empty bottles in the yard behind the cottage. And she was, moreover, the possessor of a violent, ungovernable temper, her exhibitions of which created the impression that she was, at times at least, out of her mind. Her husband had her examined about six months ago with a view to having her committed, if necessary, to a lunatic asylum. The husband himself had earned a good reputation among both his neighbours and his fellow-workmen. He was not the sort of man who would be regarded as likely to commit the most serious of all crimes. Least of all was there anything in his demeanour when he was last seen before the murder of his wife, to suggest that there was the smallest likelihood that he would take her life. They were both of them leaning over their front gate at midnight on Sunday last, when the old and the new years met, and they were then apparently talking amicably together. Less than three hours later the wife was a cruelly-battered, lifeless corpse, while the husband had not come scatheless out of the struggle in which she had been killed. His own version of what happened was that they had both been attacked in bed by someone who had broken into the house. This statement does not, however, piece in with the results of the investigations which the police have made, and the husband has consequently been arrested on suspicion. The police are naturally reticent as to the evidence they have to produce, but their case will presumably be disclosed at the inquest on the 9th inst.   -NZ Mail, 11/1/1900.


Also - but only slightly - on trial after the death of Emmeline Gallaway was her drug of choice, Chlorodyne.  This was an over-the-counter painkiller, first invented by an Indian Army doctor for the treatment of cholera.  It consisted of laudanum (opium disolved in alcohol), extract of cannabis and chloroform.  It was advertised as a miracle drug, almost a cure-all.  I'm sure that, if it did not cure all, it removed the discomfort of all symptoms.  It sold very well.


THE SOUTH DUNEDIN TRAGEDY

The Use of Drugs.

A chemist, Mr Wardrop, who gave evidence at the inquiry concerning the South Dunedin tragedy, said incidentally (says the Otago Daily Times) that there was a good deal of chlorodyne taken on the Flat and in the city. There was hardly a druggist in the city who had not several customers of this class. Chlorodyne was the least injurious of all morphine preparations. Witness (continuing): "This is not a business which any chemist tries to cultivate. We try to stop it. The habit often arises from doctors giving prescriptions containing morphine or chlorodyne, and the patients getting these prescriptions renewed." Mr Fraser: "Of course drink would be infinitely preferable." Witness: "Yes." The witness stated that accused and his wife were in the habit of getting chlorodyne from him. First of all the deceased started getting it in half-ounce bottles. He at that time cautioned them as to what was likely to be the result if they continued it. They purchased larger and then still larger sized bottles, until they took the six-ounce bottles. Witness reduced the strength of the preparation, but deceased detected at once there was a weakness, and increased the quantity. Mr Wardrop expressed the opinion that every chemist in the city had at least two customers who were victims to the morphia habit. Some months ago witness suggested that the deceased woman ought to be put in the asylum owing to her condition from using the drug but Mr Carew refused to order her medical examination as a lunatic. Deceased had two six ounce bottles every seven days. Chlorodyne was not a poison under the Poisons Act; the matter had been tested some years ago.  -Ashburton Guardian, 15/1/1900.


A SHOCKING MURDER

A WOMAN KILLED AT SOUTH DUNEDIN.

DUNEDIN, January 1

A shocking murder was committed at South Dunedin early on New Year's morning.

About two o'clock Thomas Galloway called at the police station and told Sergeant Brown that his wife had been murdered by some unknown man at his house in Bradshaw street.

His story was to the effect that the man broke into the bedroom and struck his wife. He struggled with the man, and got him out of the bedroom into the passage. He was afraid to continue the struggle further, and jumping put of the window he called his neighbours. On return they found Mrs Galloway dead and the man gone. The police, on examination of the place, found the handle of a tomahawk in the room, with blood on it, but the head has not been found so far. The police discredited the man's story, and arrested him on a charge of wife murder.

He has marks of blows on him, which he said he received in the struggle with the man. The theory of the police is that the couple quarreled, and that the woman struck her husband with an iron bar from the fireplace, and that the man retaliated by using the tomahawk. 

The woman has no wounds on her body, but her head was shockingly knocked about.

Thomas Galloway is 61 years of age, and the deceased was about 51. The woman some time ago was of intemperate habits, but of late she is said to have taken to drinking large quantities of chlorodyne. 

The inquest was formally, opened this afternoon, when evidence was given identifying the body. The inquest was then adjourned. 

DUNEDIN, January 3. Thomas Galloway, when formally charged with wife murder, appeared in Court with a slight abrasion on one side of his face and a very black eye. The post mortem examination shows that deceased received heavy blows about the head, presumably with an iron weapon. The base of the skull was badly smashed, and the deceased's spectacles and scissors were found under the front windows, where the grass had been trampled down. 

DUNEDIN, January 4. In connection with the South Dunedin tragedy the police yesterday discovered the head of the tomahawk with which it is believed the crime was committed. It was found wrapped up in a piece of cretonne, lying with a quantity of rubbish underneath the bed. There are no stains on it, but it is surmised it had been washed. It exactly fits the handle with the blood stains which was found in the house. 

DUNEDIN, January 5. The hearing of the charge of murder of his wife, against Thomas Galloway, was concluded at the Police Court to-day, when accused was committed for trial. The question of bail was not definitely settled, counsel for defence getting leave to look up authorities on the granting of bail under such circumstances.  -Auckland Star, 18/1/1900.


A NEW YEAR TRAGEDY.

A WOMAN KILLED AT SOUTH DUNEDIN. 

THE HUSBAND AKRESTED. 

One of those inexpressibly shocking tragedies which fortunately occur but seldom in Dunedin happened at Bradshaw street, South Dunedin, shortly after the incoming of the New Year. Murder in one of its most hideous forms had been committed, the victim being a woman well advanced in years named Emmeline Gallaway, who resided with her husband, Thomas Gallaway, in a neat three-roomed cottage, which stands back from the street a distance of about 40 yards. The inside of the place presented a well furnished and well kept appearance, but the ground, a long, narrow strip, extending back from the road, has evidently not been much cared for. 

At about 2.45 in the morning a young man named Andrew Bain, who resides next door to the Gallaways, called at the South Dunedin police station and informed Sergeant Brown, the officer in charge, that Mr Gallaway had requested him to go to his (Gallaway's) house, as some person had been there; and had struck his wife while she was lying in bed about 2 o'clock. He said he thought she was dead.

The sergeant of police, accompanied by Bain, proceeded to Gallaway's house. He met Gallaway in Bradshaw street, and the three entered the house. Gallaway showed the sergeant into the bedroom, which is situated immediately on the left hand in the front portion of the house, and is about 12ft by 15ft. On the floor of this apartment, on her back, with her feet under the bed, and head towards the door, lay Mrs Gallaway. She was clad in her night attire, her right arm was across her breast, and her left lying by her side. A large pool of blood had formed about her head, and extended for a distance of about 5ft towards the door, where it terminated. A large wound was plainly observable over the left ear about two inches in length, and another on the same side a little higher up, about three inches long, from both of which blood was flowing. Her left eye was bruised, swelled, and closed, and it was evident that the skull had been fractured behind the left ear. The limbs were quite cold, but there was still a slight warmth in the body. The woman was dead.

Questioned as to how it had happened, Gallaway said some man had come in about 1 o'clock and assailed them while they were in bed. He (Gallaway) was lying on his right side, at the time asleep, and received blows on the head and leg with some instrument. He grappled with the man, and they struggled into the passage, where he shook the man off, got inside the room again, and closed the door. He then got out through the bedroom window at the front of the house, and went to Mr Bain's house for assistance, telling him what had happened. Seeing the position of matters, the sergeant sent for Dr Gordon Macdonald, who arrived and examined the body at 4 o'clock in the morning. Pending the arrival of the doctor, the bed was examined. A quantity of blood and three black marks about six or seven inches long by about an inch wide were found on the sheets. On the room, being searched, the handle of a tomahawk, distinctly marked with blood, was found; but the head was gone. Gallaway said this was not his property — that it must have been brought there by the person who had committed the murder, and produced another tomahawk intact, which he said was his. On being asked how the man entered the place, he said through the kitchen window, which had been left unsnibbed. On going into the kitchen, situated at the rear of the house, the lower sash was found to be raised about 14 inches. Outside this window, it may be mentioned, the grass is very long and bears no appearance of having been beaten or trodden down in any way. In the kitchen, near the window, was found a piece of iron about two and a-half feet long, such as is used to stand pots on to prevent them falling over into the fire. This was black from use over the fire, and corresponded with the black marks on the sheets. There was blood upon one end of the bar. Gallaway said he had raked up the fire with the bar before going to bed, and had left it on the hob. It was, he said, the instrument the man had used on himself and his wife. A search failed to discover any indication of any person having come through the window or having been about the place. The key was in the back door, on the inside, and the door could have been readily opened by a person, inside the house.

Gallaway has received a bruise over the left eye and blood had been flowing slightly from his left ear. One of the fingers of the left hand was bruised, and the muscles of the right leg above the knee, showed signs of a blow having been struck by some heavy instrument. He cannot in any way describe the man he alleges assaulted himself and his wife. Gallaway was detained by the South Dunedin police, and subsequently lodged in the Dunedin Gaol. His calling is that of a fitter in the railway workshops, where he has been employed for many years, and is well thought of by his neighbours and fellow employees. It is stated that some years ago he was addicted to drink, but had given the habit entirely up. 

Mrs Gallaway (who, owing to her wounds, presented a terrible appearance) is said to have exhibited some weakness of intellect and her husband made an attempt to secure her admission to the Lunatic Asylum. Like Mr Galloway, she in the past gave way to drink, but had apparently conquered the failing, only, however, to become a victim to the chlorodyne habit, of which drug she partook to an excessive degree. Inquiry from the neighbours leads to the supposition that deceased and her husband were not in the habit of having violent quarrels, but, on the other hand, Mrs Gallaway had the reputation of being afflicted with an ungovernable temper. They were seen very shortly after midnight leaning over their front gate watching the New Year display, and were then apparently in friendly converse, and were both absolutely sober. 

THE INQUEST. The preliminary stage of an inquest was taken by Mr C. C. Graham, S.M., and a jury consisting of Messrs Thomas Smith (foreman), Robert O. Proctor, Frederick Brook. John Pinely, George Railton, and Thomas Maddox, at the Railway Workshops Hotel, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The body having been identified, the inquest was adjourned. 

In the morning the head of a tomahawk was found underneath the bed in the room where the tragedy occurred, wrapped in a piece of cretonne. There were indications that the tomahawk had been recently washed. 

The inquest was resumed on the 9th inst., when Mr J. F. M. Fraser, Crown prosecutor conducted the inquiry on behalf of the police and Mr W. A. Sim appeared to watch the proceedings on behalf of Thomas Galloway who was present in custody. 

Andrew Bain, maltster, a neighbour gave evidence as to being roused by Galloway at 2.30 a.m., the latter stating that someone had entered his house and half killed him, while he believed his wife was dead. On going out to Galloway they approached the latter's house, when accused suggested that they should get more assistance, and Irvine, another neighbour, was called. They all entered the house by the front window. Witness described the condition of the body, which was clothed with a white nightdress. One foot was bare, while another had a stocking on it. Witness went for the police, and returned with Sergeant Brown. 

Lawrence Irvine, employed in the Government workshops, gave evidence of entering Galloway's house with Bain and Galloway, and described what he saw. He heard Galloway say, "I wonder where that scoundrel could have got out?" They then saw the back window open about 14 inches, when accused said, "That's it," or "That's the place."

Dr Macpherson, who had made an examination of the body with Dr Gordon Macdonald, described the wounds on the head and face of deceased. When the skull was removed it was seen that the injuries to the skull were extensive. The brain was not injured. The base of the skull was fractured from the middle line. The woman's liver was badly diseased. In the opinion of witness the injuries were caused by some heavy, blunt instrument. The back of the tomahawk produced could have inflicted such wounds. On examining Galloway, he found a bruise across his right thigh, a cut on the forefinger of his right hand, and blood oozing from his ear. He had also the skin ruffled in one or two places on his face. 

Dr Gordon Macdonald gave evidence concerning the appearance of the body when he first arrived, and the condition of affairs about the bed and the room. Witness did not think Galloway received the blow on the thigh when lying down. 

Thomas F. Beck gave evidence corroborative of that of Bain and Irvine, and his wife gave testimony as to the habits of deceased, who took chlorodyne. She had seen deceased in a very violent temper for want of chlorodyne. Galloway behaved well to his wife in every respect, and was always an affectionate, kind, good man to her and never exposed her, but hid her faults. 

Sergeant Brown gave evidence as to being roused by Bain and going to Galloway's house. Galloway told him he was asleep when a man assaulted him and his wife in bed. Witness described minutely the surroundings and the result of his observations. When witness went to wash his hands he found the soap and sponge wet, and so did not use them. He noticed no soot marks on Galloway's hands. He found 58 large size, 150 medium, and 7 small chlorodyne bottles on the premises, and an account from a chemist for £29 6s 5d. 

Delia Gawn, 17 years of age, who had been in service with the Galloways in 1898, gave evidence that she once saw deceased throw a flat iron at Galloway, who was a quiet man, and did not retaliate. Witness said there was a shingle hammer and a tomahawk in the house. The tomahawk was exactly similar to the one produced. The head was loose, and it had two nails to keep the head on. She could not tell if the nails were the same as those in the tomahawk produced. 

Margaret Smith, who had done some work for Mrs Galloway two years ago, gave evidence that there was a tomahawk in the house at that time.

Emma Osmond deposed to Mrs Galloway being very violent at times. She never saw her violent to her husband, but when she wanted chlorodyne, she would give him no peace until she got it.

After a short retirement, the Jury brought in the following verdict: — "The jury are unanimously of opinion that the deceased, Emmeline Galloway, met her death by wounds inflicted on her head, but by whom indicted we do not consider there is sufficient evidence to show." '

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. At the sitting of the Police Court on Thursday Thomas Galloway, the husband of the woman who was the victim of the tragedy at South Dunedin on the morning of the 1st January, was charged with the murder of his wife, Emmeline Galloway. The charge was heard before Mr C. C. Graham, S.M. Mr J. F. M. Fraser, the Crown Prosecutor, conducted the case for the police, and Mr W. A. Sim appeared for the accused.

Mr Fraser in opening the case said: The deceased Emmeline Galloway was the wife of the accused, and they lived together in a house at Bradshaw street, in South Dunedin. The house is situated some distance from the road, nearly a chain, and there are trees in the garden which seclude the house partially, or almost wholly, from view from the street. The last that was seen of the deceased was about halfpast 12 o'clock, on the night of the 31st December. The next that is heard of her by any person other than the accused is when the witnesses Bain and Irvine are called into the house by the accused, to find her lying in the comer of the bedroom, in a bath of blood, with her feet under the bed, and her head resting up against the washstand. An explanation of the occurrence was given of the accused voluntarily, and in the shape of a signed statement which I propose to read to the court, and then to point out to the court the improbabilities and inconsistencies of the statement when compared with the actual facts; and after I have called the evidence I think it will be clear to the court that such a case has been made out by the prosecution as necessitates the accused being tried elsewhere. Now the statement of the accused is: "I am a fitter in the employ of the New Zealand Government. Me and my wife were standing at the garden gate when the bells rang out 12 midnight. I gave her my hand and said 'Here's a happy New Year.' She said: 'The same to you.' I said: 'I hope it will be a better one than usual.' We remained at the gate until about 12.30 a.m. I said: 'Well, my dear, we will go inside. I feel tired.' We both came inside the house. I said: 'I will bring in a piece of coal to bank the fire up for the night.' I said: 'I'm off to bed, my dear.' She said: 'I will get the things ready for your breakfast in the morning, and then I will go.' I went to bed and went to sleep. The first thing I felt a blow on the head with an iron bar. I sprang out of bed and took hold of a man, and he kept striking at me with an iron bar. I struggled with him for some time, and I felt queer in my head, and I pushed him outside the bedroom door, and he tried to force the door open again, but I managed to keep him out. I held the door for some time. I looked on the bedroom floor, and saw my wife lying down. I lifted her up in my arms, as I heard her sighing greatly, as life was in her, and I thought the best thing I could do was to get assistance. I went to get Mr Bain, and he came out, and we went and knocked up Mr Irvine. We all three came to the house, and we found the deceased Mrs Galloway, but life was extinct. Mr Bain then went for the police. When I left my house to go for Mr Bain I went out by the bedroom window, as I thought the man still in the passages. I think the man must have come into the house by the kitchen window, as I left the top part open to allow the smell of varnish to clear away. There was an iron bar found at the kitchen window, that had been used to stand on the fire for cooking purposes. There were black marks on the kitchen window sill from hands, and I am quite certain that was the way the man went that killed my wife. There were never any high words between me and my wife, except through her drinking chlorodyne. The man had a soft hat, and he was not so tall or stout as me. I make this voluntary statement or my own free will — (Signed) Thomas Galloway." Counsel then proceeded to show discrepancies in the statement, pointing out that no preparation had been made for breakfast, and that the deceased could not have been in bed and asleep alongside. The blows were not struck while deceased was in bed, as she would have never moved afterwards. Then the manner in which she was dressed showed that she was about to go to bed. One stocking was off and the other was run down to the ankle preparatory to being taken off. Counsel proceeded to analyse minutely the statement with reference to the iron bar and the tomahawk, and compared it with what would be shown in evidence. He also dealt with the statement that a man had entered and left by the back window, and with the conduct of accused after the supposed assault. Counsel then proceeded: — Now, there are probably several explanations of this crime. There is one explanation that the crime was deliberate and preconceived — that is, that the wife, as the evidence will show, was an opium, a chlorodyne drinker; that she had brought him almost to poverty by her excessive indulgence in this habit, drinking as much as 4 oz a day, and entailing an expenditure on him of £6 10s a month, that the appearance of quiet end peaceful good terms on New Year's night that the neighbours speak of was part of a scheme; and that his tale of the man who came in in the dead of night and did this deed was thought out beforehand — that, wearied by the trouble she had caused him, he simply killed her and told this tale. That is one explanation. Then there is another explanation. That they retired into the house, and that he went to bed, that his wife found herself run out of the supply of the drug, and that she discovered this just as she was about to go to bed. He is in bed, and she is sitting on the side of the bed taking off her stockings. High words arise between them. We know that she was an excitable woman, and we know too that excessive indulgence in opium destroys the nerve centres, and renders people sometimes almost irresponsible. High words arise, and possibly he strikes her. That must have been a blow in the eye. It may be that she ran out and picked up this kitchen bar, it may be that she struck him with it, and it is clear that she had the bar in her hands, because you see on one shoulder the print of the bar and there is no wound under it, so that it simply rested there, probably while she had it in her hands. It is also clear, as I said before, that the bar was in contact with him, because his shirt shows it. It may be that she strikes him; that he springs up in bed; that, he gets another blow across the thigh, because the doctors say that that blow could not have been struck while he was lying down. It might have been struck while he was sitting on the bed, with perhaps more wild blows that, missing him, strike the bed, because the sheets show the marks of these. He then runs round, closing with her, and they struggle. The tomahawk may have been in the bedroom, or it may have been brought from the kitchen, it might even have been brought from the kitchen by her, after he had wrested the bar from her. The tomahawk is taken from her by him, and passion exercising its sway, his self-control gives way; he strikes her once, twice — she falls dead. That is another explanation. Now when he was first seen his head was smothered in blood, his shirt is saturated, and there is blood on his neck and his hands; and the witnesses see him in that condition — that is, all except the sergeant. Now, when he sent the witnesses away for the police, he was alone some time in the house, and it is significant that when the sergeant saw him his hands were cleansed and her hands, which were not clenched showed no marks of soot. Well, it might be that she held one end of the bar, where it rested on the hobb, and would not carry soot, but it is evident that he was engaged in the cleansing process, because his hands were cleansed, and when Sergeant Brown went to the wash sink in the kitchen, where the soap was kept, he found at that hour of the morning that the sponge was wet and the soap wet. It is suggested that the accused removed the traces of blood from his own hands and that if there was any black on her hands he probably then removed it, and that it was either then, or before he raised the neighbours, that he washed the tomahawk head and secreted it. That is briefly the aspect of the case as it suggests itself to me after comparing the evidence before he (sic) and the evidence given at the coroner's inquest.

The evidence of Drs Gordon Macdonald and Macpherson, Detective Cooney, Francis Leonard, and James Walker was then taken, when the court adjourned. On resuming on the 12th, evidence was given by Andrew Bain, Chief-detective Campbell, Thomas and Margaret Beck, Delia Gawn, Margaret Smith, Sergeant Brown, and Constable Bingham. 

William Wardrop, chemist, gave evidence as to the purchase of chlorodyne, stating that he had warned the Galloways as to the danger of using it. Galloway was trying hard to bring down the rate of consumption. Witness had reduced the strength of the preparation, but deceased detected it, and accused asked him to make it up to the full strength. 

Mr Fraser having declined to call Dr Burns,

Mr Sim commented strongly on the course adopted. He said the only conclusion that could be drawn under the; circumstances was that the Crown was careless whether the facts came before the court at all; that what they wanted was to secure a conviction; that with them was the first thing; and whether it was right or wrong was something they seemed to be careless about.

Dr Burns, gaol surgeon, gave evidence as to the injuries of Galloway, who was evidently suffering from a severe blow on the left side of the head. There was a marked contusion on the left ear. There was a noticeable flow of blood from the ear next day, and it continued. There was great suffusion of blood on the eyelids of the left eye. On the left side of the body over the two ribs he found two distinct blue marks, with a piece o6f healthy skin between. Witness described the other injuries, and went on to state that the bruises on the ribs could not have been produced by the flat of the iron bar. The bruises on the thigh might have been caused by such an instrument if two parallel blows were struck, but witness concluded that the bruises on the ribs and thigh were inflicted by such a weapon as a pair of tongs. Accused was then fully committed for trial at the next criminal sittings.   -Otago Daily Times, 17/1/1900.


THE USE OF OPIATES.

Some extraordinary revelations were made the other day at Dunedin, on the occasion of the police enquiry into the death of Margaret Macgregor, the victim of what is known as the South Dunedin tragedy. A chemist gave evidence that the deceased had been in the habit of drinking the contents of two six ounce bottles of chlorodyne every seven days, which is nearly two ounces a day. More than this, the man of drugs asserted that there was a great deal of chlorodyne drinking in the more populous artisan quarters of the city, and that morphia and laudanum were also very extensively used. No particular blame appears to have been attachable to the chemist who, it appeared, had done everything he could to dissuade the wretched woman from continuing her noxious habit, but there is no law against the sale of chlorodyne, which is not classed as a poison under the Poisons Act, and which, had he not supplied her, could have been easily procured from his brother chemists. Chlorodyne is an exceedingly useful drug, especially in cases of severe diarrhoea, English cholera and other complaints, but it must be taken in very small doses, and purely for medicinal purposes. Used in large quantities as a regular tonic and narcotic — for it contains both Indian hemp and morphia — it cannot fail to bring in all the evils which result from the morphia or laudanum habit, and once the victim gets accustomed to the drug it is extremely difficult to break off the habit. Indeed, in this Dunedin case, it was proved that the unfortunate woman Macgregor went nearly mad when any attempt was made by her husband to diminish or stop the supply of the drug. The end in such cases where chlorodyne is used regularly and in large quantities is either insanity or death, and in view of the disclosures at the Dunedin police court, we are certainly of opinion that the time has arrived when the sale of what is, under certain circumstances, a most dangerous drug, should be regulated by law. We fear that the increased use of laudanum, morphia and chlorodyne is due to a craving for narcotic and stimulants which might much more innocuously be met by the indulgence, in moderate quantities, of ordinary and honestly made beer and spirits. It is not unlikely that many who have been in the habit of taking a little alcoholic liquor, either as a beverage or as a tonic, have suddenly ceased the practice under the influence of some temporary so-called "temperance" movement, and have, to use a homely phrase, jumped from the frying pan into the fire by giving way to indulgence in these vile drugs which, according to the evidence given at Dunedin last week, are working such evil effects in that city. Be this as it may, it is palpable that some more effective check should be placed upon the sale of morphia, laudanum and chlorodyne or the evils attaching to the undisciplined and improper use of these drugs will gradually spread and prove extremely harmful to the people. The matter is one which should receive the careful attention of the Government.  -Marlborough Express, 19/1/1900.


The trial of Thomas Gallaway for the murder of his wife commenced at the end of February, 1900.  The Prosecution line was that he had committed manslaughter rather than murder, after a an addicted wife had attacked him in her desperation for chlorodyne.  The jury found him not guilty of the charge of murder and he was discharged.


PERSONAL ITEMS

At the Hillside Workshops on the 24th inst., Mr Thomas Galloway, the oldest fitter in the shop, who is retiring upon the superannuation allowance after 30 years' service, was presented with a silver watch, suitably inscribed, by his shopmates. Leading Fitter McCaffry, who made the presentation, referred in a felicitous manner to Mr Galloway's many good qualities, and said that "Old Tom" would be missed from the fitting shop; and, in fact, throughout the whole yard. Mr Galloway briefly thanked them for their kindness, and gave a few recollections of early days at Hillside. Three cheers for "Tom Galloway" wound up the informal gathering.   -Otago Witness, 2/11/1904.


DEATHS.

GALLAWAY. — On September 30th. at his residence, 75 Albany street, Dunedin, Thomas Gallaway (late N.Z. Railways), beloved husband of Emma Gallaway. Private, interment. — Hope and Kinaston, undertakers.   -Evening Star, 30/9/1922.


The death occurred at Dunedin of Mr Thomas Gallaway, an early settler of Dunedin. Mr Gallaway was born at Doncaster, England, and served an apprenticeship as an engineer in the Doncaster plant works. He also had an extensive experience in marine and locomotive engine work. Later on he went to sea, spending about fifteen years visiting various parts of the world, incidentally taking a share in running the blockade during the American civil war.   -NZ Times, 9/10/1922.


OBITUARY.

Mr Thos. Gallaway, who was the first man to work in the Hillside Workshops, and who put together the first F engine that was brought here, died the other day at his residence in Albany street (says the Dunedin "Star"). Mr Gallaway, who was born in Doncaster, England, had an adventurous life at sea, taking a share in running the blockade during the American Civil War. He retired from the Government service on superannuation in 1904.   -Press, 9/10/1922.


Andersons Bay Cemetery. DCC photo.



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