ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 252, 17 October 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

. ATTEMPTS) Kl'lClDii By a'cJi-grapli.-Pros., Association. .... Wiristchurcli, Urn W115.1t. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, a Juuug man named J as . Mih,es was Tf' . Uttvi J* to take on < n ?*' " llootn 'S at Ellington UrU,,,,. and had been i„ the D(IIIlia . TdUin",„\r r i "' '»"1 »«"».I C (I a , "« ",.'"*}' and considered lie ad been s milled by a gir, „,,h whom e u,s in love. Tim, .so depressed him LI V, " , r""; mula "=- , »i«l.v. A letter addressed o the girl KM (omd m telling her of hi, infatuation, and declaring she had broken his he|arl, ami that he intended to | ; ,ll hhnseh' the Magistrate severely admonished the .umsed tor h,s foolish :ll .t, l, ut eon- . sidered that as aeeused had oulv iallictI ed a. slight wound on his ann| lie had i !'° l ™;>ly. intended to take his life. _ but rather intended to frigjten the <tir\ f and create a stir. j.,„> : „ : ,.„ S0(I Wl £ „ .young man of only 21 >,>.:r, of age, and lie would not send nim ;„ ~a o| ~,,, in . ' stead remanded him /,,-,- -i ueek to the Samaritan Home, alio if ;■! tile end ol Miat time the Court received rnvurtnii. reports the aeeused would 1„. discharged.

A KEISiOI'H j'AIJ,. Auckland, L.ist Night. William l'odgers, a man employed at the Auckland Club, met with a nasty accident to-day. ||,. lVils (Ifanui" a skylight and fell thn.,,gii to the Hon?, a distance of about sixlcen feet, l'odgers was badly cut about tile legs, and underwent nn operation to-day at the hospital on acount of an artery in one arm being severed. The man fell ilat on his back and a heavy .sheet of plate glass fell on top of him.

10)1.;XI) MtOWXEi). Xapier, Last Xight. At an inquiry to-day into the death of .lames .Mitchell trover, a carter, whose body was discovered in the Battery road lagoon, J[r. H. W. Brabant, Coroner, found that there was no evidence to show how or by what moans deceased was drowned.

•SUDDEN DEATn. Diuredin, Last XigM. Tlii' police received advice to-day that William Ashley, manager of the Berkeley «sta.tc. died suddenly at Henley this afternoon from an overdose of strychnine. It is believed <o have been sclfadministered. KUM OYEIi BY A TRUCK. Nelson. Last \ T ight. A young man named Mend, employed on the railway siding at Kiwi, wis run over by a truck to-day and broglit to the hospital, but the doctors have not been able to asc«rtain his injuries.