ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 34, 1 June 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

[Peu Pbesb association J Auckland, May 30. Charles Maleotes, aged 62, died in ,!u> hospital of an extensive fracture if the skull. He was walking across i road earning a bag of wood and 'ailed to notice a tram-ear driven by \V. rtting, which knocked'him down. Punedin, May 31. John Semple, a single man, aged 5G voars, employed as a farm laborer at Milburn, met with a fatal accident .est'erday. He was engaged in carting nay and thistles. When leaving the oaddock with a load lie lost his baluice and fell heavily from the cart ,o the ground. He landed on his head ,nd shoulders, and on attempting to ■iso found that he bad lost the use of 'lis limbs. The unfortunate man was ■onveyed to the hospital, where he lied. This morning the body of Robert Malcolm Crosbie, manager of Burt and Company's factory at Port Chalmers, ■ho has been missing since Wedneslay week, was found in Lower Dunlas Street, by some hoys who were ooking for rabbits. A man named Morrison, in the cm>loy of the Punedin City Corporation it Waipori Falls, cut his throat on -aturday. A doctor was procured ,'iom Outra'm and dressed the wound, vhich appeared to be bad. Morrison iore the bandages from his wound and ttenipted to rush off to the bush. -le was conveyed to a hospital in Pundin, where he lies in rather a serious ondition.

Punedin, June 1. Dr. Alexander Graham of Wai:ouaiti died suddenly at his residence t four o'clock yesterday morning. It ppears that rose during the night to

ake some mixture of bromide, he ii;st have swallowed an overdose. Df. iraliam was aged 42 and was married.