ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 920, 13 September 1910, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

..■:.■• KILLED BY A TREE. ■'■• IBy Tolezraph.-l'ress Assneiatibn i -'".' Auckland, September. 12. - D. Dansey, einployed at Broadbelt and Co.'S mill, Ohakune.jvas killed .instantaneously , this morning by 6i. tree; falling' on-him..-'

~"',;: "STRANGLED HIMSELF. . '~ ''; ' C.hristch'urch, September 12. , William Henry. Taylor,,'/aged'.'s9, a saddler/ at Yaldhurst;' strangled himself yesterday afternoon, with, a strap., _ He had been'-ill with, influenza. , " ~

;//, 'HORSE EELLONHIM.'/', ,'"/'.■ , :-■;;; ■ > -zChristchurch, September 12. , ■■'' John:M*Cieliand;'6f''Scargill-, was seriously'injured oh' Saturday night? through, his'' horse ' slipping on the hillside, and rolling over him. Ho'died-this morning.

! 'Mr. H. "Palethbrpe, who' was knocked down by a motor in Lambton Quay on Friday night, is,still confined-to his bed; suffering from,severe shock.'

Nine persons were injured during a short spell- of freedom enjoyed by a leopard-who escaped from a menagerie at Vega, Portugal. The animal, after mauling two women, made off. with a child in its paws,' but dropped it when the chase came near; The child,-was scarcely .in-, jured at all.' .

In one year .Dr."'E.' M.. Grace had 208 oatches missed off 'his bowling.:

Dr. Bertillon, head of the Anthropometrical Department of- the ■ Paris police, has invented a new, method of identifying criminals. For the -future not only will a record be taken out of the finger and thumb prints of every convicted person, but'tho colour and texture of the hair will- bo noted;