ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9343, 12 January 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Wellington, January 11. Walter Alexander Milne, a married man, aged 38, shot himsell last night behind the ear with a revolver, and now lies in a precarious state at the hospital, with little hope of recovery, tie was for a time a storexeeper at Manakau, and eighteen mouths ago came to Wellington with his wife, from whom he has since separated. Invercargill, January 11. At an inquest held to-day on the body of an infant found in an unused well in Queen’s Park on Saturday, the medical evidence was that the child did not breathe after birth, and a verdict was returned that it was placed in the well by some person or persons unknown. Christchurch, January 11. The police authorities here received information from Cheviot this afternoon that a prisoner named Patrick Begley had ..committed suicide by hanging himself in the lock-up in the township. It appears that Begley was arrested at Cheviot on Saturday “on a charge of having stolen a horse, saddle, and bridle at Geraldine, and it was intended to bring him before the Court to-day, and get him remanded till the 19th inst.

Dunedin, January 11. William Jenkins, whose arm and side were badiy crushed by the cog wheels of the driving gear of a chaffcutter, at Crown Terrace, Arrowtown, on Thursday, died yesterday. His arm was amputated on Saturday.