ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1842, 30 August 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

, " *. n STEWARD COMMITS SUICIDE. o Robert Anderson, aged 49, a first 2 saloon steward on tho steamer Makura, '! suicided on the voyage from Sydney. c Anderson nearly cut liis bead off with 0 a razor. J h MOTORMAN'S FALL. « A motoi-man named John Crawford, a married man residing at Island Bay, v ' was admitted to tho public hospital at s ! about 9 o'clock last evening suffering c from slight concussion of the brain. It is stated that ho fell off tho car which a ho was driving.' RECOVERED FROM THE RIVER. • (By Telegraph.—Prers= Association.) v Hamilton, August 20. The body of Ettie Douglas, 37 years of. age, and a married woman, who left n a note on July 9 at Cambridgo flint she 0 intended to drown herself,_ lias been recovered in (he Waikato River at Hunt- " ly. At tho inquest a verdict was re- " turned of suicide while temporarily insane. a ! .MISHAP AT RAILWAY CROSSING, h Palmerston North, August 29. 01 A Longbiirn settler, Mr. R. D. . Knight, w'lien driving home from I'alinerslon this evening, was caught, at Hie r( level crossing by the incoming Welling- a ton train, and, with a companion, burl- 11 ctl from tin) trap.. Mr. Knight was con- S sidcraM.v knocked about, liis shoulder P ; was dislocated, and sonic libs worn broken. He was dazed, but not seriously injured. His companion escaped. The tc gig was .sinaslieci, but the horse whs ol not touched. Tho road crosses the' lino si diagonally, and Uioro is a clear yi«w w ilia whole way of Dassincr trains. w