ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2233, 20 August 1914, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

—frTRACEDY WITH LOADED REVOLVER. YOUNG WOMAN SHOT IN THE HEAD. (By Telegraph..—Press Association.) Napier, August 19. . A serious shooting accident occurred last night. Two young ladies, Iris and Gladys Austin, found ft revolver in a drawer at a friend's house.- Gladys, thinking it unloaded, playfully pointed it at hor sister, but tho weapon did'not go off. Then Mrs. Broad pointed it at Gladys, pulled tho trigger ana the revolver fired, the bullet penetrating the young woman's 6kull. There is little hope of t!he victim's recovery. Later. Miss Gladys Austin died shortly before noon to-day. DEATH IN A POLICE CELL. . . A death occurred in the police cells at Lambton Station yesterday, shortly after midday.... The occupant of the cell was Wm. M'Leod, a man of 34 years, who had been arrosted at about half-past 8 in the morning on a charge of being fonnd helplessly intoxicated. M'Leod was brought to the Lambton Quay Station and placed in one of the cells. He was visited from time to time by a oonstable, and found to be apparently sleeping all right. At a quarter te 1 Oonstable M'Crae visited the cell, and as things wero not found to bo all 'right, a doctor was sent for. On arrive! the doctor .found M'Leod to be dead. An inquest - on! the body of the deceased will be held to-day. . ' A ship's carpenter named Amderson was admitted to the Hospital at 9.30 last • night suffering from a crushed foot. The accident was sustained while Anderson was working on the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Orari, berthed at tlie Queen s wn^rf. The condition of Mr. and Mrs. Mullins, the victims of the Clyde Quay tragedy of last week, was _ reported from the Hospital last evening* to bo not so good as previously.