ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2, 7 May 1913, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

suicide.lv a hospital. f [Per Press Association.] Wellington, May (j. Miss A. J. Percy, a resident of Petonc, was found dead in her room at a private hospital in the city this morning,, having hung herself by placing a waist-band round her neck and attaching it to a towel which she had fastened to the upper part of a screen. ' Deceased was seen by a nurse about twenty minutes before the body was found, and then was apparently in her usual health. She was 50 years of age. The name of the man struck by the up-train < from Wanganui is Alfred. Cole.' It was found that his injuries were not so serious as they had > ( appeared, both legs cut off. [Per Press Association.] Invercargill, May 6. Charles Nichol, 36, married, was run over by a train near Otautau this morning. Ho left homo to feed some horses, and it is surmised that when crossing tho line ho was struck by the engine. The driver did not see the accident, anti the victim was not found till a goods train arrived later. Both legs were cut off. Nichol died on his way to tho hospital.