ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 64, 22 March 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

RAILWAY CROSSING FATALITY

(Per Press Association.) Dunedin, March 21

At the inquest o'h Robert Adair, whr was killed at Mosgiel yesterday, the evidence showed that deceased was driving a horse and trap from Dunedin to Mosgiel, and when crossing ehe Gordon road at 5.50 p.m., the train ran into the trap, cutting it to pieces and throwing the occupants out, deceased receiving such injuries that he died soon afterwards. Three girls, named Trevethan, aged nine, seven and four years respectively, also received serious injuries, and were conveyed to the Dunedin Hospital. The evidence went to show that the' train, which was travelling at the rate of from twenty to twenty-five miles per hour, whistled before reaching the spot as usual. The trap was travelling at •a fast pace, and the driver, who was looking in the opposite direction, on seeing the train, pulled up, but being then on the line it was too late to get clear. One of the girls is still unconscious. Adair was about thirty-five years of age, and was married about a year ago. He leaves a widow and one child. A verdict was returned that death was due to injuries received by being run over by a railway train, no blaim being attachable to the driver of the train.

HAIRDRESSERS’ SUICIDE.,

Wanganui, March 20

iFred Crane, aged 38 years, a hairdresser, was < found -dead this morning. At the inquest the evidence disclosed that Crane’s father heard a shot about six o’clock this’ mofnlngV Going to ascertain the cause, he found His son lying on the ground with a gun alongside him. A verdict was re-

turned. that deceased shot . himself while temporarily insane.

A > SHOOTING FATALITY

Christchurch, March 20

Brief particulars of the shooting fatality which occurred at Hororata yesterday were received to-day. The body of James Phillips, aged 65, a farmer, residing in the Coalgate district, was found with the top of his head blown off by a gunshot. Phillips was out rabbit shooting, and it is assumed that the fatality was the result of an accident. A CASE OF SUICIDE. Christchurch, March 20. A shooting fatality occurred at Rangiora last night, under somewhat unusual circumstances, John Samuel Ingram, 25 years of age, unmarried, returned to his father’s house slightly under the influence of liquor. His father remonstrated with him, and young Ingram went upstairs, got a revolver, and came down again. It is not yet quite clear whether he de liberately shot himself, or whether the revolver went off by accident, but the bullet entered his head, and he died at 12.30 a.m. to-day.

A RAIL AY AY ACCIDENT

Chrictchurch, March 20

Miss Mary Ellen Hedgeman, twenty years of age, residing at Islington, met with a serious accident whilst standing on the railway station platform at Islington. By some means she got too near the engine of an incoming train, which struck her. Medical aid was called for, and it was found that Miss Hedgeman was suffering from internal injuries and from concussion of the brain.

MOTOR CYCLE COLLISION.

Wellington, March 20.

About eight o’clock last night a motor-cycle riden by Andrew Clouston, wharf laborer, collided with a hansom cab in Jervois Quay. Clouston had his wife and child in a side car attached to the cycle. Clouston and Dolman, the driver of the cab. say that they were on the right side of the road. When near the cab tin cycle swerved and got under the Ironl of the cab, and was only extricated with great difficulty. Clouston had his nose broken and his face cut. Mrs Clouston was severely shaken, hut the child was uninjured.