ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 18842, 7 June 1920, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

TELEGRAPH MESSENGER ELECTROCUTED. (Per United Press Association.; DUNEDIN, June 6. A boy named James Caskie, a telegraph messenger fifteen years of age, living in Cumberland street, was electrocuted Lust night about 9 o’clock in the reserve known as the Triangle in Lower High street. Cashie was swinging on one of the wire stays of a flag-pole, when a high wind blew against it an electric-power wire. This probably carried a current of about 1700 volts and Caskie must have been killed instantaneously. • DALMATIAN’S SUICIDE. AUCKLAND, June 5. A Dalmatian, Marin Pucar, committed suicide by jumping from the Mangete Bridge into the Waihou river. DEATH FROM BURNS. TE AROHA, June 5. A four-year-old girl, daughter of Mr W. A. Brinkley, died in the hospital from burns. Her clothing caught while she was playing near a copper fire. DROWNING CASES. TWO AUCKLAND FATALITIES. AUCKLAND, June 6. The body of a commercial traveller, George Kelson Butler, aged 58 years, employed by A. H. Nathan. Limited, was found on St. Mary’s beach this morning, apparently drowned. Deceased had been at Whangarei and on Friday he telephoned to j his wife that he would return next day. Nothing further was heard of him. He had no children. The body of a married woman, Amy Ryan, about 40 years of age, was found floating in the harbour this morning. She was last seen on Friday. FOUND DROWNED. DUNEDIN, June 5. Edward McKewen, licensee of the Marine Hotel, Port Chalmers, was found drowned at Mussel Bay yesterday afternoon. He left home at 2.15 p.m. to join the train at Mussel Bay for Dunedin. It is thought he may have fallen from a carriage after the train started, there being sn injury to his head, and rolled into the water. CAPSIZE OF A MOTOR CAR. FEILDING, June 5. Another motor car accident occurred at Sandon last night. A car travelling from Palmerston to Eltham took the tram-line instead of the road line and overturned. One passenger, HarriSon,' was seriously injured. The others escaped slightly.