ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 323, 9 October 1908, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

! 1 ' (B* TELEGRArn —FRESS ASSOCIATION.) > ' ♦ ''.V/'-' '. * FOUND DEAD.- ; .'■■■" ■ ;• • ' Auekiaridr October ''.f • An elderly man named Robert Nichols jtes-!, -fourid dead in a paddock near Trafalgar .'•■ Street,. at.four o'clock .tliis after- . W6ii..i" iio/marks our, the body,,;.i and; it. is".supposed that deathi was duo to ,Y 'heart..disease.:, -. . ,j v— : -Core, October 8... , -i An , : old 'resident of Gbre, and an old' age ' pehsignerV, : named Robert i'effers, about 65 9 years'-of age; left homo about five o'clock ;i "ctbis 'morning. Owing to his not returning for ~ breakf^t7^seafch' r was 'instituted, resulting i in the' bod^' being.-' found ■in tho' Msitaura. . •„ | Deceased';ivas''-foi-some time'iii Seacliff Asylum, but-was year ago. ''

( TIRED OF LIFE. ; " : . ' . : v.-; -f .-.r '.. v Cisborne, October 8.- '~ '='"A. Man-named -Ed. James Ranger, aged '28"years, ;died at.the• G isborne - Hospital. to*'- ,V nigutias the result Of a dose of arsenic selfr'y « administered; .-.At ; half-past- two this' after- ; noon-.ho ;Walked into the police station and y Stated that he had poisoned himself at noou - j •'by, taking.-arsenic, as lie was tired of r life, •'liacl: no'''hibnby, " and ,could get 110 ,work.\; ;S®gt. Hutton theii "summoned / medical as-. ? •feistaiicfe, i-andf the- usual romedies were ap- • -plied,-rafter-which lie-was removed to the ; hospital, where ho died at 7 o'clock. '. ;

■?Ai young woman Mary' O'Coriiior, about 30' years of age, and ..understood to belong Jsr \Yaimate, was admitted to the hospita 'last'evening -about l-l-o'clockjsuffering troa .. shockV' cau's'cd 'liy" a 'fall down a flight ot steps at the Trocadero-Hotel, Lambton Quay. 'One) of the street doors opens in upon a \fliglit of steps, and it is stated that when • thb ' lady leaned against it, it . suddenly , ;opened, and. she was-precipitated down about 10ft. of, steps. There wfro.no injuries sustained, woj-tlr'mentioning, beyond a severr i shock'"to tlioS system. • J