ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 38, 4 February 1908, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A MAORI KILLED. Pur Pics, Association. Whangarei, Monday. I A -Maori named t.coigc I'n was* in I aiautly killed by a lug lulling o\ei hiu |at Mutapuuri owing to a jack -nap J l'"SWHARF FATALITY. Duncdin, Last Night. I At the inquest on the body of cicorgi i Faiquahaisoii, the victim of the fatalUy at the wharf early on Sunday morning, the medical evidence was to the effect that death wis probably due to shock caused by sudden immer-ion. The jury returned a \erdict in accordance with tile medical tcstimonv, and added a rider that steps should be taken to prevent access to the wharf at night, except through <;atcs under the control o' the night waU-liiiian. } A CASK OF SUNSTROKE.

Invcrcargill, Last Night. Milfuid ('.ray, 23 years of «..,., was suiistruek at the Bluir fo-dav, and sent to the hospital. A FOOT RUN OYER. Invcrcargill, i, as t Night. Charles Knopp, 19 years of age. attcndint at Wirth's Circus, had a foot injured by a truck passing over it today. He was taken to the hospital . DETERMINED SUICIDE. Duncdin, Last Xight. The body of a man named Joseph Robson, a groom out of work, was found almost decapitated by the side of the railway, 60 chains south of the Ravensborne station, this afternoon. Two passengers by the North express state they saw deceased throw himself between two carriages from a second-class carriage platform. Deceased a day or two ago gave himself up to the police, requesting to be locked up, aa he was destitute and unable to obtain employment. He was charged with vagrancy nt the Police Court this morning, and was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, and left the Court with Mr. Cumming. of the Patients' and Prisoners' Aid Society. A second-class ticket for Oamam and a shilling, given him by Mr. dimming, were all that were found in the pockets of deceased.