ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 250, 15 October 1908, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

J- <-"L.\ i, L>) ■tc*<.giapii.--i- lcaa -Association. I V V 11111,,, U t-ast -\ig/H. -A JOUll«» lliuu ilujiitfd >• <it '-t llli-l wiii, Lt>])\) UU ttjta soiuewiiat serious accident this morning. Jle aud « « out to uie lied Kock,, Wiley and Xerajvftiti, lor tue p.ivifose of Miouuug liU)blVs . iu . Was ' m w' en hj! !'" S " ' Ubljit OUt 01 its ,lulc ! h hj,, gllll , winch he had placed on lie grouau, went oil'. The cUarge en telea Ills right arm, causing a very W wound. He unveu to tht hospital. wuicre his injury was attended

SUICIDE AT I.\GLEWUOD. Viord was received in New Plymouth yesterday that Augustus Fitzherbert, a middle-aged tarmer un the Durham . ' had committed s uicidc by Hanging. 11001 information to hand it appears that i,e had sold In, larni, anu on luesdav he and his family were moving. His wife mi SS ed luminals he did not return in two or three hours, a searcu was instituted, the body ci fitzherbert being eventually found by ntn , , Uln< ' } ' llau S»'S > ro 'n a tree in a J ' I'll 01 bush a i tile back of tie T tUU 01 me r , )' uu,d n, ' n " tue man cliuiolU into the tree and fastened the roie 10 a bough twenty or thirty feet from tin ground, knotted it round las'neck, fml. almost the head fiom the trunk. The deceased was wed-known i u the Inglewood district, tor «e years he wa a uutter-muker m the Maketawa factory, and then wen ljrmmg on the Durham road. He sold out and went to Hamilton, returning wo or three years ago and re-purchas ° 111 the same district. Durin» his stay up north he was in a mental hospital. He leaves a widow and a family of young children. ■*

IXQC'EST. v„ ;!r,"" 11, r t " i,a Inglewood i"? 1 , toUclun c aeath of 31 r iitzherbcrt at Durham road. Evidence was given by .Mr. T. Corney, who testified to haung lirst heard tnat aet-eaacd was missing from home at a quarter to three and went across to the farm to look for him with Mr. Curd. They fo.und the body, in about half-an-liour, (hanging from a tree; it was cold and rigid. Ihey sent for the police. Mrs. Fitzherbert said slie was the wife of deceased and last saw him alive about a quarter j>ast seven on Tuesday, when lie was i/i good health and quite bright. He, had Had a good deal of worrv in business matters lately and had been despondent. He had previously been an inmaite of an asylum. DP." Gault gsive evidence as to examining tho body, and finding no marks of rioleace. there being only on. mark, and that round the neck, and evidently caused by a rope, which was shown to him He attended deceased about six months ago, and found him suffering from dyspepsia. He prescrilied for him and advised him to go away for a clnnge. This was all the evidence, and the jury, without, retiring, returned a verdict 01" suicide while temporarily insane, adding a rider that they wished to express their sympathy with Mrs Fitaherliert audi family in their present bereavement, —Record.

A man named J. Thomas, of Inglewood. was admitted to tlic New Plymouth Hospital on Tuesday .suffering from severe injuries caused'by a saw" mill truck running over his arm. It appears that he was on a log-laden truck, endeavoring t 0 steady its pace, when he fell off, and the truck passed over his left arm, severely lacerating the flesh' and muscles, and breaking the bone of the forearm.