ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 36, 12 February 1914, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

jtKQUEST IN WELLINGTON. i [Psi* .ASSOCIATION, ], , Wellington, t (cjnuarv 11. At the inquest on William James % ri ,yictim of , ihe })ixon Street fire last Friday nigm, the coroner commented on the fact that Bolton, tho occupier of tlie H , iiouse, had admitted, J^e i( had Wu sijKtking intone.,of tjj ! e ) and tlij*. lire..fir, d apparently parted, in .thpt lie returned ji ( vej'diqt that .Martin was burned to death, but, the evidence was l<>, sho»\ how the lire originated.,/ , .. _ ..

A DETERMINED SIMCItJE. Christchurch, February H. At an rally hour this morning John Cartin', resident at Colombo Street, ion ml the body ot his brother, Robert Renneu Carter, hanging from a branch ol a tree in the back yard. Deceased, who was 40 years of age, was a single man and a carpenter by trade. He had been eccentric in bis manner and behaviour for some time past. At the jnquost, a verdict was returned that deceased committed suicide while temporarily Insane. MINER SERIOUSLY INJURED. Dunedin, February 11. Robert Waddingtou, a middle-aged man, was admitted to tlie hospital to-night, suffering from a fractured skull. While he was working in the’ 1 Kaitangata mine, a piece of iron flew from a moving truck and hit him.