ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1914, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

It.ill: "..- nf Si 1 1 ? I i , \ RAILWAY CROSSING. [Pee Prkbs ABRoorATioN.l Nelson, J a jinary 3. An accident occurred at the danger ous Annesbrook railway crossing thi: morning, C. J. Deck, dentist, on .! motor-cycle,' colliding with a train. A medical examination is '.proceeding. I» is understood thai 1 Deck's'left log if badly I Woken. ' Ho'also received vari ous minor injuries to his head and body. , ,'"" ~*T. , ~ DROWNED WHILE FISHING. Daijiavillc, January 3. A man was lost from Tuiraiigj .yes teyiia'y whilst fishing at tho Heads His body was discovered this mornim. by tiie light-house keeper at Pouto The man is not known. SUICIDE AT V/ANCANUI, Wanganui, January 4. A man named C. L. Caddell, wh< has been staying at Foster's Hote for some months, committed suicidi early on Saturday morning, by mean; of a hypodermic injection. Deceased who was a remittance man, cam' downstairs at about 2 a.m. and ask ed the night porter for a drink o milk, remarking that he did not wan to be called early in the morning. H< apparently returned to his room am took a drug, as the porter, a couph of hours later heard hhn groaning. A doctor was called and the man takei to the hospital, but he did not re cover consciousness. He left a let ter stating his intention to commi. suicide.

Dunedin, January 3

It was Robert Bayliss, not Robert Ctflkinson, as was first wired, who wa; injured at Waitati yesterday. H( is progressing favorably, the bullet having been extracted. DISOBEYING HIS FATHER. Napier, January 4. At the* inquest on Leonard Hughes, eight years old, who was drowned in the Tntaekuri River, the father gave evidence that lie warned the boy against bathing there, and threatened to thrash him if he disobeyed. The verdict was "accidentally drowned."