ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1988, 19 February 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ifly Tclefmph. -I'rc6« association.) — • 'A MAORI'S SUICIDE. , Auckland, February 38. A middic-agcJ Maori, named Toko Wirihana, whose wifa was away from home, was found (leatl in bed in' Cross Strqpf, l),y a labourer named .)0)111 !Vny at 7.!0 a.m. to-day. Toko wasi.ll a double bod, with the blankets soaked i.ll bloody wliil.p : ;bl9d'dvs.tai'n.c'(l 'Was found ncai tlio biicly. Tlie jugular vein littjl been severed, and there woro t;v.o 'short, deep .A'-'diinils in tfi'.o Heck. Last night .'Polio sennod 'oalm and collected, and (>avo 11a iiiilfeiti'an iliat lie contemplated taking llts life. FARMER'S SUICIDE. Blcr.helm, February "18. a abotil •to or 50 years," CfimmiiU'd suicide by luufftiiift .this morning at Canvaxtown. He. had just taken ovw.H farm at the Sinutd.s. The reason for the act is uuknoivli. SEftfOUS' ACCIDENT, . V/anganuii beljiuarv IR. 'X married man named Claiade AVoork cork, of llffsstowi'lj had .his el;est seriously crushed wliilo working 111 'a. freezing clra-mboi; at Casttocliif tO'day.. Tic was removed WtW :I\os§itivl. - ■ STREEI \CCIDI \1 In Cuba Street 0.1.1 Tuesday night, Mr. Frank H, Ch.ri.#fc., aged JO yeiti's, ft farmer from the, Waijcaiuii distrr.l, was knocked down liy a. train, whilst crossing tlio .street. The? fi'oiital btjno Was iradmrcd, and bo wsis very sefo.rel.y hruisod and shakon. • Wo wiis conveyed try tli» Hospital, where he lies in. «i critical cwnlttioft.