ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1868, 30 September 1913, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SAD AFFAIR. ' ! A MEDICAL STUDENT KILLED. (By Telosraph—Press Association.) Dunedln, September 29. Rutherford Nichol, a fifth-year medical student, who was injured on Saturday afternoon;, at.'•".Knox'/College by a fall of ,clay fracturing his pelvis,'., .died iu tho Hospitaj;last lnglit after an operation. Deceased and other students wore engaged preparing a ground for a lives cojtfft wlieh . thcl.faCe of earth collapsed. '.Deceased 'was generally, regarded as a. student, with a promising 'distinguished career. Ho was the son of tlio Rev.. W. Nichol, of Nllampden, and was 23 years of age. DEMENTIA & SUICIDE, Fcilding, September 29. At Aorangi 011 Saturday night a single woman named Beryl Neill committed suicide by hanging. She was apparently demented, for previous to being found she behaved strangely. She was thirty years old. ... EX-PUBLICAN'S SUICIDE. Timaru, September 29. William Hall Anderson, who some time ago. retired from the hotel-keeping at Fairlie, having previously had the Crown Hotel at Timaru, committed suicide in his home at Fairlio 011 Sunday morning by shooting himself with a revolver while in bod. Medical evidence was given that deceased had been for some two years suffering from gastric and cardiac troubles, with evidence of tho commencement of general paralysis. 'Tho jury found that death was due to a wound self-inflicted while temporarily •insane. ' Deceased was much-respected in Fairlie. FOUND IN THE RIVER,. The police were advised yesterday that the body of a man had been found in the river at Tenui (East Coast). The deceased was apparently about sixty years of age, but had not been identified.