ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 191, 3 August 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A WOI'LD Uli SUICIDE. By Telegraph'—Press Association. Auckland, August 1. A waiter names .lames Jtobnison,after (jelling a friend tio identify liini, obtained a bottle of prussic acid from a clumiist, statin;,' tliat lie wished to poison a dog. On leaching tha street Jiobinson declared in 11 drama tie fashion that he was going to lake the poison himself. He uncorked tile liottle anil swallowed a portion of the contents. Ills companion* dashed the liottle out of his hand, lie fell down and they carried him to tile nearest chemist, where an emetic was administered. Jiobinson is now in Uiie hospital, a fatal result having been averted.

J)KATII I.N A CELL. Wellington, Last Xight. A street musician, a blind man named (ieorge Lear, was found dead in a cell at the Mount Cook lock-up on Friday night. I.car who had been arrested for insobriety at five o'clock the same evening, iuppeaivd to lie quite vclSjf other than siiH'eriug from the.effects of a drinking bout, and arrangements had been clt'ecled whereby lie was to be liberated oil bail a niiie o'clock. When Hie ei'll w as visited for that purpose at. the time stai.nl, the deceased was found Ijing on his back quite dead. Lear is believed to have been a mechanic in the railway workshops a one time, and an accident; there was said to have been the cause 01' his losing his eyesight. An inquest was held yesterday) and a verdict returned of dealih from apoplexy. j A SOMNAMBULISTS FALL. Wellington, Last Night. A man named William Hannah, 7.'t ywirs of age, employed as a messenger at the I'arliament Buildings, was walking in his sleep at his lodgings during last night and fell from an upstairs window, lie was discovered by his fel-low-boarders, and a doctor was summoned. Hannah was taken to the hospital. It is understood his injuries aiv not very serious.

DEATH OF A CLISKUYALAJJ. Auckland, l.a-t Night. Rev. John Law, supernumerary Metli' odist minister at Mount Albert, Auckliind, died on (Niturday night after bo itijr ailing I'm- sonic tnnnVlis. Deccaset caitic to till' Dominion ill INUB, and Inn charge of circuits in various parts o! New Zealand. lie was in bis 08th year and is survived by bis widow and foil: «ons.

DHOI'I'KI) DEAD. Cliristchurcli, Last Xiglit. A farmer named James Ivin**, a resilient of Ladbrooks, dropped dead at Little River on Thursday while mustering cattle.