ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3605, 18 October 1920, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

TOKIRIMA TRAGEDY. TAUMARUNUI, Oct. 16. A settler, when milking cows this morning, discovered Anderson in a wool-shed only half a mile from Loft’s farm. He had removed wet clothing and spent the night in a sheepskin. He carried a rifle and thirteen rounds j of ammunition. When the settler’s j back was turned he slipped into a j whare and had a feed of eggs, and then made for the hills. • A search party of four police and eight settlers followed him. They will be joined to-day by a detective and police from Hamilton and Te Kuiti. Anderson is now making for Taumatjunni. ' , TAUMARUNUI, This day. Andersbn was captured at -two o’clock on Sunday morning two- miles, from the scene of the murder. { RAILWAY CROSSING FATALITY AUCKLAND, Oct. 16. A fatal accident occurred about 7.30 cj’clock this morning at Mount Eden railway station, which illustrates the danger of people neglecting to note the warning not to cross the railway track. An elderly man named J. D. Hayes left the platform and attempted to cross the lines in the station yard, when he was killed almost instantaneously by a passing engine. Deceased, an American by birth, is well known in Auckland streets and at races and other sports meetings as an itinerant vendor of “notions,”. He resided at Edendale Road. The body was removed to the morgue. An inquest was opened this afternoon. FOUND DEAD. DUNEDIN, This day. •""SB*., The body of Robert McArthur, aged 53. was found lying under the railway bridge near Abbotsford; Deceased was employed on a dairy farm at Wingatui, and it was his habit to walk along the railway line. It is surmised that he fell from the bridge. Deceased was from Home, and it is understood that he had no relatives in New Zealand. POUND DEAD. | WELLINGTON. This Day. ! A land agent named Berrtam L. j Taylor was found dead in his bed- | xborff, ishot through the head, and : with a revolver lying by him. He j had been suffering from insomnia folj lowing influenza. I A FATAL FALL. DUNEDIN, This Day. j i Cecil James Box, aged 13, was killed I by falling from a dray"(near Port ! Chalmers. His parents reside at Lower S Harbour. “The first wealth' is health ”—Emerson, And the best health insurance,against spring and summer maladies is Baxter’s Lung Preserver —a favourite cough and cold remedy, with a repu tation behind it of over half-a-century

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