ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 27, 23 May 1914, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

I Pus Facet Association.] . ; 1 1 : -it Auckland, Mav 22. At the inquest at the Mental Hospital regarding the death of a patient, Elizabeth Schomberg, a \ erdici wareturned of straugula tion while insane, no blame being attachable to the autliorities. '■' ‘ j Christchurch, May 22. Mr C. Kerr, I ;the well-nowU'Hotting owner, who ivaS injured in a trap accident last Saturday night, died at the hospital to-night. Auckland, May 22. Charles "James Metcalfe* fox, illegally selling wine to a constable, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labor. David Hugh McDermott, for selling liquor without a license, was fined £2O. | Auckland, May 22. A sensational incident is ’“ported to have taken !place at ’Kohimarama yesterday. Infbrmation was received by the police That in the morning' a man went to a!house and knocked at the door. A wotuan answered 1 the call', and the stranger tlic'n a'sked if .her husband was at home. Upon receiving a reply in the negative, lie is stated to ha ve presented a revolver and demanded all the money the woman had. At the same time the man accidentally dropped a cartridge. The woman said she had no money, and the man then went to another house. Afterwards ho made off. Auckland, May 22. j A collision occurred to-day between a train and a cart at the Onslow road railway crossing, Kingsland. A haver’s cart, driven by Carlton Hopworth, was crossing the line, when the train struck the horse, carrying it with the shafts of the vehicle atioss the cattle stops. The horse was killed, the cart was greatly damaged, Inft Hepworth jumped clear, sustaining only minor injuries. This crossing is particularly dangerous. A similar accident, with fatal results, occurred there a few months ago.