ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 56, 11 July 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

HANGED IN THE BUSH

[Per Press Association.]

Wanganui, July 10

The police received word to-day from Mr Connor, of Raorakia, about fourteen miles up the river, that he had found the body of a man hanging to a tree. The body proved to be that of a seaman named Charles Woods, aged 29, single, and supposed to have been lately a fireman on the steamer John. About a fortnight ago he asked at Connor’s for work, and was given a meal, no work being available. The body seemed to have been dead at least a week. It was evidently a case, of suicide. The man had used a handkerchief and a piece of wire to do the desperate deed.

CRUSHED TO DEATH. Wanganui, July 10. A fatal accident occurred on the town wharf this morning. A man named lack O’Connor, aged almut 35, single, lost his life. He was a butcher by trade, but for health reasons had adopted heavy work on the wharves. He was assisting to unload the Rimu, and was receiving a sling of boxes on the wharf, when the boxes swung out, and he was carried with them. By some means the whole lot came to the deck, with the boxes on top of O’Connor. He was badly crushed and died in the Hospital about an hour later. He could only say that he was a single man.