ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 8, 10 January 1901, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION.* Palmkhstok North, January 9. An elderly man named Charles Hammer, a ganger on the railway, this afternoon walked in front of an oogice wbi'e shunting peaf the goods shed, and! was knocked dawn and killed. , Wellington, January 9. At Mart.inborough lost night ConJ Stable May received news that a man named Archibald Mcintosh was missing at White Rock, and it was feared that. he had committed suicide whilst sufforing from delirium tremens. Early yesterday morning bis clotbos and do/j were fo ind on {lie bench nearaUgson, but although a spai-ch was glade no qign of the body was found, J Constable May bos gono out to make & further se.rch. Molnt')sh is tho nephew of thd ]ato Captain Mcintosh of the illfated s.s. Wairarapa. His relations are supposed to be living at Banks Peninsula.

Btfsfiflifc, January 9. Josophine Mai'y DrotferfS, married, aged 73, losiding at St. Kilda, was takeu to the hospital on Sunday evening suffering from the pft'ecta qf '6vtrdrinking. She was si violent that she had to be strapped to her bed. She remained in that position till last evening, when, during the absence of the RUise, she managed to free herself, and made for a window on the top flat and flung herself on to tl}o grquqd, She was picked up dead. At the inquest on Msry Josephine Trowors, evidence went to show that tha deceased must have s'ippod her hands out of the straps by whioh she was fastened down, undid the Ruckles to the straps on her ankles, slid from under the sheet which restrained her, and then threw herself out of the hospital window. The nurse was only absent about two minutes. The jury, without retiring, returned a verdict that deocased died from fracture of the skull oaused by falling from a window while temporarily insance, no blame being attachable to anybody. At the inquest on Al°x, Smith, one of the fireman on the Ao'ea, the medical evidence was to the effect that there were no marks of violenoe. A wound on the left temple and two small punctures on the right side of the head were considered t > he caused after death. The jury returned a verdict of found drowned.