ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 16 July 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Received 15th, 9.38 p.ni. rif « ii. • , Melb °urne, July 15, U the three-iockeys injured on Saturday s race, F. Crooker baa succumbed. U. Mahony sustained a. fractured leg. Per Press Association. lnvercargill, July 15. Irofcssor Lichtwark, hqrse-lauier, was • found lying in a pool of Wood oa the Aorth ltoad at 7 o'clock this morning, with his throat cut in two places. He ' was removed to the hospital, and died three hours later from loss of blood. >o weapon was found, It is supposed to bo a case of suicide. • „ lnvercargill, July 15, A man named James Patterson tried <° c ■"?* "* ">? as a train was entering ' - 2 ,, m 7 Statio , tt to >y- The engtof caught h lui ag he w^s . s « p1ati0,,,,, and turned him over Hta ■ . wo st mjury was a dislocated shoulder, •>nd .1 variety of minor bruises were sub- X seoiumtly discovered when he was taken to the Rivertoa Hospital. Mr- ti,™ July 15. -us Thyne, 71 years of aee; who re- ~ «a«l with Mrs Hendhon at &,%£ found dead in bed this monung. Shi „i,,!,? i" e ° t ° d heala and ■PWh hrt : '"gut. A post mortem has been ordered. . , Dunedin, July 15. A boy named Robt. W. Farquhar was accidentally killed at Warepa, It seemed that he was playing with a little girl named Elliott The children had a rope ■ attached to the top of a very heavy hiy sledge, which was leaning against a shed. Hie boy was pulling the rope, and ap. patently overbalanced the sledge, whiSi tell on lum, killing him Instantly.