ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 74, 25 October 1916, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Por Press Association. • Wellington, October '24. Albert Henry Jones, aged 25 years, whose parents'l-esiJe at Christ church, was killed this morning through falling off a diuy. The wheels passed over his head, causing terrible injuries. Julius Phlerers, a German, 57 years, was i 'running down Chilka street in company- with his wife at about 1.30 p.m. on Saturday, when he suddenly stumbled and fell over. On being examined he was found to he quite dead, having evidently overstrained his heart in the exertion of running. The deceased has a family. His wife stated that he had not been attended medically for over four years, and was not aware that he was a sufferer from heart trouble. Mrs Sarah Holloway died suddenly at her residence on Saturday morning. The deceased lady, who was a widow, 54 years of age, had been out shopping in town. When she returned home at about 10.30 a.m. she complained to her daughter of not feeling well and a difficulty of getting her breath. She was taken upstairs to bed and died shortly afterwards. Auckland, October 2'2. Stamate Angello, a middle-aged Greek, committed suicide in Mount Eden Gaol by hanging himself with a strap in his cell. Angello was formerly a restaurant proprietor, and wont bankrupt some time ago, being convicted of breaches of the Bankruptcy Act. Pahiatua, October 20. William I). Kemp, farmer, one of the victims of the recent motor accident near Woodville, died last night in the Pahiatua hospital. Kemp was driving the car at the time of the accident, and his skull was fractured. He was a single man, thirty-one years of age, and a son of Mr Daniel Kemp, the well-known settler at Kumeroa.