ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 96, 30 April 1913, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

****awßSSik CUT HIS THROAT. ,i iPaiiSßi;(Association. ]; Dunedin, April 29. A man named R. Irving Johnston, apparently between 35 ap4b4P years •- of age, , is suKPPfiftjqto hiyencommittqd suicide in • the. Gladstone'' Hotel ,this afternoon. ’ 1 His body vvhk found; on-His bed ’<|eep wfjjjifj in the throat and a racov lying alongside. Deceased arrived at I the hotel on Tuesday, and said that 1 he might stay for, a few weeks. He is said to have been somewhat, eccentric in his actions and sayings. He did mot have his meals in hotels and drank very little. Articles in his possession indicate that' at one time he followed rhe occupation of a commercial traveller. HAND CAUGHT IN COG-WHEELS. Whangarei,, ( April 29. A. H. Clarke, while working .a plan-" mg machine at Foster’s timber yard this morning got his left hand caught in the cog-wheels of the machine. One finger had to be amputated, and he may lose the others, as they were terribly. crushed. A FISHERMAN’S END.

Invercargill, April 29

John Stirling, Stewart Island, today conveyed to Half-Moon Bay in a boat the body of John Marshall,—which he had found in the latter’s dinghy about eight miles from Half-Moon Bay. The dighy was full of water and the oars and rowlocks were gone. It is supposed that during a squall on Monday night the deceased was fishing and the dinghy capsized. Marshall afterwards righting her, but the exertion was too much for him and death ensued. The deceased, who was 61 years of age, had lived alone in a hut at Horse Shoe Bay.

DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN

Invercargill, April 29

A fatal accident occurred at Hedgehope on Monday afternoon. A young man ,aged 23 years, was working in a gravel pit-for Mr McEachern, when a fall of earth came down suddently. The deceased was jambed by the fall against a dray and death was instantaneous, his skull being fractured and his neck broken. He was only known in the locality as Tsandy,” and was said to have hailed from the Gore district.