ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 82, 3 November 1916, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

CHRISTCHURCH SENSATIONS. SUICIDE IN MOTOR-CAR. Per Press Association. Christchurch, November 2. Corporal Archibald Bunts, a returned soldier, shot himself this afternoon. While in a motor-car. Burns became restless, and made to open tlie door of the ear. He was prevented from doing so, and immediately produced a revolver and shot himself in the head, dying at once. At the inquest a verdict of suicide while in a state of unsound mind was returned. Deceased left with the Canterbury battalion of the Main Body, and was wounded at Snvla. He was invalided to England, where he was under treatment for a severe nervous breakdown following his injuries.

MAN RUNS AMOK. This afternoon. William Henry Alh'ii, a remittance man, ran amok on Ibo lawn in front of tlm Supreme Court. He asked a gardener, C. Morris, a returned soldiur. if tlte Supreme Court ware sitting;, and, receiving a negative ri'ply, produced a bayonet and rushed at two carters who were conveying a case into the .Maoistrate’s Court budding. Thev fled. Allen, pursued by Constable Rvan, rushed into the court room, giving: the Magistrate, the officials, and others an unpleasant jar. In trying to intercept Allen, Constable Ryan was gashed on the arm with the bavonet. Escaping from the court. Allen, followed by the constable and Morris, rushed down Armagh Street, where he was cornered by some carriers and thrown, and the bayonet taken from him. This weapon "gone, he’pulled a carving knife from beneath his coat and stabbed Morris a’u'”e the evm He was then handcuffed and taken to the police station ~i.. f . 0( j j n ~ padded cell. Morris had his wound stitched at the basil,al , and afterwards was able to proceed to b'" me. Christchurch, November d. Allen was charged, o-dav with vansactual ! odilv h.’viu, and was rounded I'or eight days. Rail was fixed at L'lUO.