ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 841, 13 June 1910, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FRACTURES AT FOOTBALL AND HOOKEY. (By TeleErash.-Press, Association.) Dunedin, June 12. 1 footballer named Wm. Roberts playing for Ravensbourne against Aorthern B, sustained a fracture of the leg near tho ankle. Ho was admitted to the hospital. In the hockey match St. Martins v. !a - 1 1 1 ..? a1 , nts ' ono of the forward players ' £° Ulde <J 71™ an opponent and broke ills collarbone. STEPPED OFF A GOING TRAIN. Christohurch, June 12. Mrs. Devon, who resides at Sockburn, and who was a passenger by the 4.10 tram from town on Saturday Stepped off tho train while it was passing Hornby station, where she desired to alight. The train was not scheduled to stop there, a fact of which Mrs. Devon was apparently unaware. It was going at the rate of about ten miles an hour when Mrs. Devon stepped off it. When assistance reached her she was found to have been much cut about tho head, and was suffering from shock She was taken to the hospital, and this afternoon was reported to bo' progressing favourably towards recovery." MAN BURNED TO DEATH. Oamaru, June 11. The police havo received intimation that a man named J. S. Adams, about U years of age,. was burnt to death Jast night in his whare at Maerewhenua. Further particulars are not yet available. DROWNED. . Greymouth, June n. The body of Minnie Glen, aged 18 Sister of tho young man drowned off a dredge at No Town on Monday was found washed up on the Cobden' Beach Jus morning. She left homo on May 24, presumably going to Wellington in the Arahura, and had not been seen Wnce. SUICIDE. Auokl3nd,' Juno 11. ■ 'Arthur Fredk; Bucklaiid, a widower aged 40, committed suicide in an Auckland boardinghouse this mornino-. Ho was found dead in bod with a revolver bullet in the temple. Deceased was a solicitor's clerk, and had recently been in the hospital for bronchial trouble.