ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1933, 16 December 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

"UXAIiLE TO REDEEM HIMSELF." : AX ECCENTRIC ACT. l "' (By Toloß-ranh.—Prosa Association.' . ! Auckland, December 13. Albert Victor Hare, a labourer, aeod ' twenty-six, committed suicide at fiowick on Saturday. After ho was refused a drink at a hotel ho went into a stable and closed the door. The licensee fomid him sitting on ft bos pointing a, Run at his lwad. Tile licensee told him not to bo a silly. Hare then pointed the gun at the licensee, and the latter got out of danger: He heard a gun shot, and on returning to the stable found that- Hafo had inflicted fatal injuries. A, letter written by the deceased stated that lie Jolt unable to redeem himself.. ■ '?:*■; ■. GROCER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.' Auckland, December 15. George Hurst Moody, a grocer, of Onehunga, cut his throat in a washhouse, and ivas removed to the Hospital in a serious conditkiii; ■" ■' • . v A FATAL FALL ; Nelson, December 15. A waterside worker named G, Guy, believed to bo a Scottish immigrant, fell down the hold of the Tonga riro' tonight, sustaining a severe concussion of the brain. He was removed- to the hospital, wlraro he died an hour later. CARRIES COMMITS SUICIDE. Christeiwrch, Decembor 12. A mail named Owen St ace, a carrier, who resided with his wife and family at 48 Randolph Street, Woolston, committed suicide yesterday morning by 'hanging himself from a tree l'n the Domain, near New Brighton racecourse, Stace, who was GO years of age, left his homo en horseback at 7 o'clock yesterday morning, after telling his wife that ho would bo back in an hour for breakfast. Ho did not return, but liis son, Owen William Stace, when returning homo about -4 o'clock in tho afternoon from shooting, found his father's horse straying oil iho road near the racecourse at Burvroed. The horse ilad 110 bridle on, but was hobbled with a rope. Thinking that the horso had run away, he took charge of it, and rotumed. ■ When the father did not return home last- night the police were informed, and Constable Rowe started to search the Now Brighton Domain, and at 8 o'clock this morning he found Owen's body hanging frwn a tree. ...The suicide was n most doter* mined one. The man had doubled the bridle round his ncck, which' was broken by the drop of sis feet. When found, the body was 'hanging about 25 feet above tho ground. Constable Rowe removed the body to tho city morgue, where an iwiuost was . hold this afternoon, ' After hearing evidence, tho coroner returned a ' verdict- that ■ defeased committed , suicide by hanging himself whilst iu a,,state of..unsound, mind. ; DROVsNT!) IX SBIAVYX RIVER, j ChrlstclvUfoh, December 1.1 'j': A,»n:an".named Thomas Tasker.Harris. 1 was drowned ,in tho Selwyn River, near the fishing lints,', on Sunday. V--At: the inquest a verdict of accidental drowning WOMAN SWALLOWS POISON. ■' " chrtetcbureh, December 15 JC tVsfr»! '-A. E,. : .Ross,'.of Carter's Lane, . toff'.Kilmore Street-,- s ',swallowed poison to-- ' day.':??! She j.was-'inkni ?t« .the Hospital,' and ■ is expected;l<i;. : recever ; ,f,iHer hus-' . Jiandtfis^a^plumber^iiHiig'Jat'vPaliiier-' :stpii;x ? ■ 'WBMt