RAZOR AND CHLORODYNE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1763, 30 May 1913, Page 5

RAZOR AND CHLORODYNE.

4 WORRIES OP A NEW ZEALANDER IN AUSTRALIA. Two young men—W. M. Maguiro and Ernest Williams Atkins—engaged a room at the People's Palace, Sydney, 011 Thursday of last woek. Groans were heard next morning emanating from their room. On effecting an entrance, Atkins was found lying on the lied, deeply gashed in tho wrist and arm, a razor by his side, and tho bedclothes saturated with blood. Maguire was suffering from the effects of chlorodyne. Four empty clilorodyne bottles were found in the room. Maguire was conveyed to the watch-house, and Atkins was removed to tho hospital, and is not expected to recover. Inquiries showed that Atkins came to Queensland from Now Zealand. He purchased a farm at Kin Kin, on the North Coast line, and took Maguire into partnership. Tho business _ prospered for n time, but eventually, they were beset with financial difficulties. To add to their troubles, Atkins recently received word of the death of his sweetheart in New Zealand.' They purchased four bottles of chlorodyne on the Tuesday, with the evident object of ending their lives. THE NORTHERN TRAIN SMASH. $ —— INQUIRY TO BE HELD. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, May 29. Tho most serious injuries in the railway collision at New Lynn on Wednesday morning t were received by 15. 11. Stone, of Wailuimete, whoso chest was crushed when two of the cars telescoped. His condition showed some improvement to-day, but he is not yet out of dinger. Of the score of passengers who suffered material injury in the collision, nearly all aro now feeling the effects of thcshoek. There is no anxiety regarding tho condition of any of them except Stone. An inquiry, with a view to ascertaining the cause of the accident, will bo held by the Railway Department, but a date has not yet been fixed. Following the usual custom of the Department tho inquiry will not be public. The wreckago of tho two carriages telescoped by the collision was loaded into wagons yesterday, and carried inlo the Newmarket Workshops. Any parts that are not damaged will bo sorted from the debris hml utilised, and the remnants will be relegated to tho waste pile. Some damage was done to the other carriages of tho train, and they havo been sent to Newmarket for repairs, as have also the two locomotives. Tho injury to the track tvns remarkably' snutll. Half a dozen sleepers on the bridge wore broken, and in 0110 place the rails tvere slightly bent.