ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1103, 17 April 1911, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

HAD BEEN DESPONDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Nelson, April 15. Frank Gaiger, aged 30, recently on the railway works at Tui, was found on Thursday night in an unconscious condition ou tho Haven Road, near Salt-, water Bridge, bleeding from the mouth and nose, and a revolver, one chamber of which had been discharged, beside him. Ho died on removal to tho hospital. Deceased had. been staying at the Globe Hotel for ten days and been despondent. Ho was formerly manager of the Trafalgar Hotel, Nelson.

MINER'S FATAL INJURIES. Westport, April IS. Julius Marx, aged 18, who was injured sorao time ago through being crushed between tubs at Stockton mine, died in Westport Hospital.

WOMAN HANGS HERSELF. Auckland, April 15. A married woman named Ellen Blair, aged seventy, while suffering from' mental derangement, the result of an incurable disease, hanged herself with a fishing lino over a balcony. She was quite dead when discovered. . ..."

A FEACTUKED'ANKLE. About 3 p.m. yesterday, a cyclist, named J. Conroy, mot with a collision on the Hutt Eoad, aud sustained a fractured ankle. He was later on admitted to the hospital. Conroy is a married man, 59 years of age, aud resides at Epuui Hamlet.

SHOT WITH A PEA-RIFLE.' A. M'Carley, a married man, was conveyed to the hospital from South Karori yesterday, suffering from a severe gunshot wound in tlio back. It is understood that the wound was accidentally inflicted by a bullet from a pea-rifle carried by -Mr. M'Carley's son.