ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2869, 6 September 1916, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

FRACTURED SKULL. / An accident occurred at a railway crossing at Thorndon at 6 o'clock last evening. Shortly after- that hour a man named MacG'aulcy was admitted to. the Hospital. His injury /was a fracture of the skull, and at a late hour last night he was still unconscious. It is stated that MacCauley was tho driver of a baker's cart, and that he got in tho way of a moving train. FINGERS CUT OFF. A youth named Dodd, living at Island Bay, was admitted to tho Hospital yesterday, suffering from the loss of two fingers and a third finger was severely cut. He got,his hand caught in a machine. OLD WOMAN'S SUICIDE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dur.etiln, September 5. An inquest was 'held to-day condeming the ■ death of Mrs. Matilda Bardsley, of North-East. Valley, aged 70 years, who died in the hospital this morning. Evidence showed that deceased's .husband, proceeding to the backyard at 5.30 p.m. on. Saturday found her sitting on a box with a cut in lier throat. Sho suffered from throat trouble, and had to sit up at night from lack of breath. Medical evidence showed that deceased had been men tally depressed by tho death of a son killed in action. A verdict was returned of death, duo to injuries self-inflicted, while in a depressed state of mind.