ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 531, 11 June 1909, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

"BUFFERINC FROM HALLUCINATIONS."' ( (ST TEIXaBATH—PRESS assocutiokJ Wanganul, June 0. A young man, named A. 0. Thompson, t grocer, who. bad boon suffering from hallucinations, and wan taken-to the hospital on Saturday night,, loft that institution at midnight last night, and was. traced. tc| the river, close by, where his body was found at noon to-day by tho police. The deceased, who was highly respected, was of a quiet disposition. He had been in business here, and was not ombarrassed finan-' cially., Ho came recently from Rangiora, and was a nativo of Tasmania. His age was twenty-six; years. A FALL IN A STEEPLECHA6E. '• . I . •,-•""■ Auckland, Juno 10. ; MTunnon, tho jockey, who was seriously injured by Irish, which foil in tho Winter Steeplechase at EUerslie, is in tho hospital.' His condition this rooming was critical. ; FATAL TRAM ACCIDENT.' ' ' . Auchland, June 10. An'.elderly woman, named Anna HorsnoH, a .resident of Sydenham. Christchurch, slipped and foil while alighting from a tramcar at Onehunga this evening, sustaining a fracture of tho skull, death resulting several hours later. Deceased was on a visit to her daughter, and had intended returning to Umstchurch to-morrow. , .I• . ' ■ AN OLD MAN'S DEATH. ■' I* T . 'MOBira.— SMCIAL CDItIIWI'OITDBKt.J y„ : ■■'■■. " , . Ohakune, June 9! I-!' w m ' .killed at OhaMino. Radway Station this morning, whilst working on road progress works. A tree fell on hun. ■