ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
' ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. A man named Charles W. Lynch, | aged about 40 years, and described as an accountant by occupation, was found, lying on tho roadside near Point Jerningham by the driver of the Union Company's motor-van yesterday morning. Lynch, was taken to the Taranaki Street Police Station-, where it was ascertained that he had lately come to ■Wellington from Whakatano. He was suffering from a hullet wound in the head, and one a few inches below the heart. He told the police that he had shot himself with a revolver at about 8 o'clock, the previous evening. If' added that he had not been in goo health lately. Lynch was removed t< the Hospital, whore, on inquiry last evening, he was found to be progressing favourably. KILLED WHILE BLASTING. . By Telegraph—Press Association. Ghristchurch, October 18. Robert Campbell, a married man, aged 68 years, residing at Addington, was killed on the Lyttelton-Sumner Road works to-day during blasting operations. '
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2906, 19 October 1916, Page 6
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160ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2906, 19 October 1916, Page 6
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