ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 276, 18 August 1919, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

BODY POUND-IN THE HARBOUR,

The dead body of a soldier in uniform was found in the harbour near the Eastbourne Ferry Wharf at 12.45 yesterdav afternoon by Constables Clevorley and O'Connor. The body was warm, indicating that the man could, not have been lons in the water, but he was quite dead. From papers found on the bodj of the deceased it appeared that ho vaa named Harry HorwiU, a Bu«wj *£ by birth, 51 years of ago. He had been at Feathcrston Camp. y

FALL DOWN STEPS. At 3 30 p.m. on Saturday, George Armstrongresiding in Holloway Konfl, was ad S The hospital suffering from an Sα?? h the head caused through a Si down some steps at York Buildings, Manners Street.

■ 4 motor accident which, fortunately, ln'd no fatal results occurred on batnray night about 820, at the railway crossing" about <i mile and a halt north o Manakau. ■ Mr Harry D Nattraa was returning to Wellington from Paliiierston North in an empty car ljclongin» to tho Nattrass and Harris Motor Ooranany. and, on turning the sharp corner out of the cutting on to tlhe railway crossing, discovered a train consistincr of unlighted trucks, a few feet in front of him, running south. He promptly swerved on to the cn.ttle-stops, and t!i« train struck the , side of the car, tearing away a portion of the body. Tlio driver was unharmed. It was very dark and raining at thfi time, and this is one moro instance of the necessity ojf efficient warnings being placed on railway crossings. TRAGIC DEATH OF A LITTLE BOY. By Telegraph-Press Association. , ; Auckland, August 17. Frank Hector M'Quarrie, aged four years, of Mount Albert, died in hospital to-day fie the result of scalds sustained by falling into a tub of boiling water. SUICIDE AT AUCKLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, August 18. Tho dead body of Erasmus W. E. Nielsen was found on Mount Eden with a gunshot wound in the head. A doublebarrelled gun was lying across the body and a handkerchief'was tied'to tho trigger. Deceased, who was 21 years of age; returned to tho Dominion a month ago. Auckland, August 17. An inquest was held this morning into tho death of a returned soldier, Private W. E.. Niolsen, M.M., who was found ehot through the head on Ml. Eden on Friday evening. The deceased returned by the Marama about a month ago. Hβ was classed as a mental convalescent case and was sent to Avondale Mental Hospital. He was discharged this week, and on being "boarded" 6cemed "uorvy," but that was all. The board, therefore, decided to send him to Narrow Neck Convalescent Home. He did not, however, go to the home. A verdict of suicide while in a state of mental depression was returned.