ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 136, 30 May 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Auckland, tat Night. Robert 11. Hanson, oO yours of age, employed us crossing-keeper at the Auckland railway station, was knocked down by an ongine, wliitli was about to be coupled to a train wliicli ho was attending to. Hanson sustained serious injuries, including a fracture of both legs. Napier, Last Night. Robert Rowland Dnrrant, a wellknown Napier resident and one of the oldest engine-drivers on the. Government railways, is dead. lie drove, the mail train as usual 011 Thursday, but died in his bed at about 3 o'clock this morning, probably from hoart disease. lie was > in his 58th year. > Invercargill, Last Night. ' All inquest was held at Bluff to-day 1 on (jhe body of John Cotter, who was found in five foot of water near Ruapuke jetty 011 Thursday. As there was no evidence as to How the body came into the water, the verdict returned was ''found drowned.'' Deceased was welleducated and believed to have been well- ' connected. i' A DISTRESSING SUCIDK. s Christehurch, Last N'i^ht. ;, A married woman named iic-sn l ,- liiakeway committed suicide at her residence 011 the Yahlhurst road, Uiecarton, , about 11 o'clock last night. It appears j that she.retired lo bed about !U5 p.m. , in her usual state of health, but when her Imgband returned home, at 11.30 he found the front door open and liis wife missing. He immediately made a search I and found his wife's body lying 011 its back in tin- on-hard about, fifty yards , from the house. There wa- a wound I about two indies long on the throat, s and the windpipe was severed. There ] was a blOiidViaiuod table-knife lying 011 , the right-hand side of the oody, • An inquest was held to-day. A vor- , diet of suicide while of unsound mind 1 was returned.