ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2795, 13 June 1916, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

. 4 _ MAN KILLED IN TARANAKI street; Victor Scoullar, while attempting to board one of the New Zealand Express Company's lorries, was killed. in Taranaki Street at about 8.40 o'clock last evening. From information given to the police it appears that the motor lorry had been engaged 'in moving furniture from Taranaki Street. The owner of tho furniture, the driver of the vehicle, and another' man who had been assisting them, had stopped at a hotel in the vicinity to procuro some refreshment. When the vehicle commenced to niove oil, it is stated that the deceased attempted to jump on;and failed. The motor lorry was rounding. the comer from Abel Smith. Street to Taranaki Street when Scoullar was observed bv eye-witnesses to lose his grip. He either fell under the machine and the wheel passed oyer him, or was killed by the fall to the roadway. The body was subsequently removed to tho morgue.

YOUNG MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF. Bj Telegraph Press Association.

Blenheim, June 12 A- young married man,~ named H A. Monro, of the well-known Bankhou.ee family committed suicide late this afternoon at Burleigh, near Blenheim. DecSi? Y as defeuJ ant in a case in which" £1000 damages were asked for assault which was coming off to-irtorrow in the supreme Court. , He borrowed a »un saying his horse had fallen and broken a leg, and he wished to shoot it. A constable, on searching, found Monro's dead body with jthe gun alongside it.