ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 749, 23 February 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

TESTING AN > ANCIENT PISTOL: ■ USE.SAVED BY A BUTTON. ■ (By TeleeraDfi—Press Association.) Auckland, February 22. . A boy. named Kaymond Ibbertson. had a.very narrow escape from sudden death at Epsom': yesterday afternoon.lt '.appears: that, a young friend, of' his was showing him' an; old: pistol of his father's,. and young Ibberston, holding the firearm: with muzzle towards him tried the:trigger. : The pistol, 'as-! it - happened,, was loaded : and the bullet, passing through the centre' of the boy's band, struck a. button on the breast of his,coat, glanced' off, and passed through the upper "part of his,arm.: Dr, -Williams:attended.rtho. boy, . whose wounds, though not dangerous, gave' him ' a very. bad ' shock. ' It would appear that his • life, wap saved,by : tho coat button.

. HIS LIFE FOE ANOTHER'S. - Tnuranga, February 22. Arthur M. Coles,; M.A., was drowned: in the Waikoreo estuary. this, evening;' while proceeding to rescue. a little boy. ■Deceased \was principal of Queen's Col;lcge,; and a highly respected'' resident. The body has been recovered. "NO . HINT OF HIS'INTENTION." . Chrlstchurch, February 22. , A man named, Christie, GO- years, old, hanged himself; at his son's workshop today. He , had . knocked , off ; work. for.; a few minutes, and/gave not a hint of his intention.. '. 'V STRUCK BY A CAR;' .Paddy. Griffin, the six-year-old son of ■ Mr. P. J.. Griffin,. of the Pier Hotel, was , knocked down by. a car in. Lambton I Quay last evening.-" He ran across from I tie Hunter Street corner, thinking that he would be in time to-pass in front of the car, but he wus struck, and received a severe shaking, being bruised about the face. The boy was taken home, and is reported to be doing well.- ; v