ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 63, 6 July 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

[Peh pßstsa AafioaiATioN.] ! Feilding, July 5. Miss Formby. an elderly woman, who hud purchased a ticket tor Wellington, was the victim of a train accident here to-day. The Auckland train for Wellington was on the outside rail-, and the New Plymouth train from Wellington was steaming in between the platform and the other train when the woman walked across the rails to the Auckland train. She was struck by the cowcatcher and knocked off the lino. Dr. Valintine, who was on the trqin, attended her and found that slit had sustained serious injuries. Slu was taken to the Palmerston Hospital. Later. Miss Formhy succumbed en route to Palmerston. Auckland, July ■!. A painter named Frederic Lewis, a married man, was cleaning the walls outside the residence of Mr A. M. Myers when a thin bar across a window, to which he was holding, gave way. He foil to the ground, a distance of 15 feet,, and sustained a fracture of the base of skull, a fractured leg. and other injuries. Christchurch, July 5. An inquest was h'elil at Lyttelton this afternoon touching the death of William Boothland, who was found hanging from a tree over an old quarry on the hilltops near Haupaki yesterday afternoon. The coroner returned* a verdict that the man committed suicide by hanging.