NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 184, 13 April 1915, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

*• # • .v » i‘} ■ " { ■ Vv ' ■ I 1 . /tv.t: •4 i A PORIRUA TRAGEDY. | MENTAL PATIENT COMMITS ■ !, 'S'dIOIDEL' press' Association. — Copyright. WELLINGTON, April 11. Shortly' after" midnight last, night, a "patient in the mental hospital at Porirua (escaped from the institution. He broke a window in his dormitory and niade his way to a clump of native; bush about a quarter of a- mile away. He was’ found there this morning hanging by the neck, and quite' dead. The esicapeo had only been an' inmate •of the hospital for.- about three months, arid came frpni the Taranaki district. He suffered from delusions of persecutions, but had njsver before shown any suicidal -tendehci.es....- 7 . - - -.' ■■ ■- u~ • i; ' FATAL ACCIDENT. A WORKMAN CRUSHED. ' AUCKLAND T,hl Day.'. . ’ Charles Anlerson, married, about 40 years of age, was crashed to death, at Epsom, while moving a stable supplied on trollies. Hje was . underneath the stable when the wall suddenly sank. leaves a wife and family residing in Hobson Street. . A SIMPLE ACCIDENT. MIGHT HAVE BEEN FATAL. CARTERTON, April 12. John Marshall, erlieVing arihyay porter at Carterton station, mat with an accilent this morning. He attempted to exchange a tablet with the engine by hand when the automatic exchange arm on the engine pierced his forehead and tore the flesh away. He was taken to % private hospital for treatment. His injuries are not .very seriouSi * • r - *- ■■ v A GA3 ACCIDENT. CHRISTCHURCH, April 12. ? Regarding' the case .of Wjiriifred May Cllss, almittel to the hospital •yestfarevo, suffering from gas poisoning, information given to the police shows the affair was accidental. She was seined with a fit. while attending to a gas stove, and subsequently found lying, on the floor with thje ga,s tube disconnected and ga, 3 escaping into the room. Fortunately the doors were all wide open. Thje woman is now out of danger.