ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17690, 30 July 1919, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(PSB UtJITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION.) wu x • WANGANUI, July 29. When a train from "Wellington was drawjng into tho station at Aramoho to-night a returned soldier, Private T. M'Kane, attempted to leave ins carriage, but fell under the wheels, six of which passed over mm. The seventh wheel rested on his body, which wits horribly mutilated. The railway staff had tha gruesome job of lifting t.ho wheel with a jack. The carriage in which tho deceased, travelled was filled with soldiers. WELLINGTON, July 29. At the iiiquest on tho body of Private Josiah David Evans, an inmate of the Irentham Military Hospital, which was found hanging in the gymnasium on Sunday morning, a verdiot was returned that tho deceased died from strangulation caused by hanging himself, no blame being attachable to any other person. It is believed that the deceased had no relatives in tho dominion, bis next-of-kin residing at Bristol Misses Ina M IConzio and- Jean Johnston, nurses from the Seacliff Mental Hospital, wero admitted to the Hospital: yestorday, suffering from slight injuries caused by beuig im-own from a motor car while visiting Dunedin. Air James Cow, District Coroner, hold an inquest at Methven on Sunday in connection with the death of Walter Herbert Fawcett, a married man, aged 43 years, whose body was found on Friday in the north branch of the Ashburton River. Evidence was given to the effect that Fawcett and his wifo had been living as a married couple at Mr J. W. Woodliouse's Pudding Hill sheep station. Mrs Faweett had gone away to a nursing home, and tho owner of the station had been absent a few days. On his return lie noticed signs of Faweett having been drinking heavily. He was kindly and carefully treated for several days, aaid on July 18 he left tho station. Ho was last seen alive on the Three Mile road with a dog. and was apparently making towards Methven. As he did not return to the station, a search party went out from Methven, and the bcxly was eventually forand in the river stuck fast in a fallen tree. His coat, a boot, and a stocking were missing. A verdict was returned that the deceased was found drowned, but that there was no evidence to prove how he had got into the river.