ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3004, 15 February 1917, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A FATAL COLLISION. By Telogvaph.—Press Association. Dunedin, February 14, Neal M'Culloch, aeed 64 years, residing at Ravensbourue, met with a fatal accident to-day while cycling, as a result of a collision with a motorcyclist. Death was duo to a fractured skull. A WATBRSIDER'S SUICIDE." According to the report furnished the police regarding tho suicide of a waterside worker named Walter Whiterod, it appears that Whiterod lived with his mother in Salisbury Terrace, and it is alleged that his mental balance appeared to bo affected on Tuesday, and from something he said his mother, becoming alarmed, kept a close watch on him. In the afternoon a visitor called, and while engaged in conversation, Whiterod quietly slipped away, and locked himself in the bathroom. The mother quickly missed her boy, broke in tho door of the bathroom, and found the unfortunate young man had used a razor, and had inflicted several severe wounds at the back of both knees, and had also on his left arm above the elbow. Medical assistance was obtained as quickly as possible, and the injured man removed to the Hospital, where he died in the evening. An inquest will 'ho held, but the time has not yet been fixed.

A man named Alfred Watson, residing at 63 Cambridge Terrace, walked out of an upstairs window, and fell into the street. This happened on Tuesday morning. The man was removed to the Hospital, suffering from concussion, and was still unconscious last evening.