ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
FEB PRESI ASSOCIATION. Wbstpobt, August 25. Wm. Liwrie, who met with injuries while work ; ng in an excivatioa on the railway work* yesterday, diod in the hospital this morning. CiißisTcatmcn, August 25. Frank Hopuins, ore of th*) old«st master butchers in Ohrietchurcb, shut himself with a revolver last night in b?d in his own bouse. Decased had been a gr--at sufferer for maay years, and be 1-ridden latterly. DrjNEDiN, August 25. Hush McDiarmid, agel 19 years, was killed in G-orge-strjet on Saturdiy evening. It has become the practice with hundreds on Saturday nights to walk in thn roadway instead of the pavement. McDiarmid and a friend were doing this whan a tramcar was going down the bill past the Octagon. The driver gave a warning whistle and the friend stepped off the rails, but for some unknown reason deceased did not, and was struck by one of tbe horsex, one of the wheels going ov«r his chest and crushing it.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 192, 26 August 1901, Page 2
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163ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 192, 26 August 1901, Page 2
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