ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 95, 15 April 1914, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

[Pbb Press Association.] Wanganui, April 14. John Winters, a fireman on the steamer Putiki, has been missing since Sunday morning. Ho went to bed on Saturday night, but at 4 o’clock next morning it was found that he had disappeared, clad only in his sleeping garments. He is supposed to have gone into the river. . Hastings, April If. A lad named John Chapman, aged 16, met with a gun accident which might easily have had fatal results. While looking for birds in a tree ho rested the butt of his gun on the ground, and on subsequently raising it the trigger caught on the buttons I of his knickers, and the gun discharged. The bullet entered Chapman’s ' left cheek, and came out his left eye without, however, injuring the sight. * Nelson, April 11. At the inquest on Tom Nowth, a motor'cyclist, who was killed at | Springrove last night by collision with a horse and dray, the Coroner returned a verdict that death resulted i from collapse of the lungs through collision with a three-horse team !driven by Robert Wallace without lights on the vehicle, the deceased being on his motor cycle on the proper ’ side of the road, and with proper lights.