ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2207, 21 July 1914, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MAN'S FOOT AMPUTATED,

Auckland July 20. While attempting to board a car ia motion at Newmarket on. Saturday • night, Alfred Langwell, aged 35, slipped under the car and had his right foot badly crushed. Dr. Williams attended the sufferer, and it was found neceesary to amputate the foot. Besides having his foot injured, LangwelPs cheeks were badly cut, and several of his teeth, were knocked out. Ho is still in a bad, though not serious, condition. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN HOTEL BAR. Chrlstchurch, July 20. On Saturday night at Jollie's Pass, a labourer named John Riteon attempted tq/iut his throat in an hotel bar, and interrupted a football "social." The man, who had been drinking heavily, is now out of danger. FORGOTTEN CHARGE IN PEA RIFLE. . ( Glsbome, 'July 20. Fred Hansen, a settler at Motu, was carrying a pea rifle which had ' : been taken to pieces and wrapped in an overcoat, and ou dismounting from his' horse threw the parcel containing the pea rifle on to a verandah. The riflo discharged and the bullet entered Hansen's left eide and abdomen. The injured man has been-brought to the Hospital. . SUDDEN DEATH. IN CHURCH. ■..'■'■ Chrlstchurch, July 20. Henry_La.ne, aged 45 years,' a carpenter, dropped dead in church yester-day-wnilo. singing a hymn. , , FOUND DROWNED. Core, July 20. The body of John C. Carroll, drown, ed in the Mataura River on May 23, was found yesterday four miles belovt Mataura. CORONER'S INQUEST. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday # Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., held an ' inquest concerning the death of Thomas Doyle, -who was found dead in bed at Jew's Boardinghouse on Saturday af-''• ■ ternoon last. Sergeant J. Henry appeared for the police. • ' Dr. Kington- Fyffe; -who conducted a post-mortem examination ou the ■ de- : ceased, said that death was due to '■ blood in the stomach. • A verdict to that effect was accord-' ' mgly returned. / . 1 . MAN'S FINGERS CRUSHED. Yesterday morning, a man named Adam Dalgleish, a machinist at the Petone Railway Workshops, had one of his fingers severely crushed whilst at his work. First aid was rendered, by' employees of the Department, and afterwards the injured man was attended by Dr. Ross.