ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 9, 4 February 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

INQUEST. By Telegraph.—Press Association. I Wellington, Uu>t Night, At the adjourned inquest on the body of William Brumby, which was found in J£van's Bay un .Sunday, the Coroner found that the deceased was fouud drowned, there being 110 evidence to show how lie came to be in the sea.

RAUiWAY CUAUD CUT TO i'IKCKS. ' Invercargill, Last Night. A man named Wright, a guard on a ballast train, was cut to pieces to-day, apparently while putting 011 the brakes t about a mile beyond Waihoaka, on the t Orepuki-Waiau line. He was a single I man, a-ud recently came oil' the Main i {Trunk line. His relations reside in Auckland.

A BOY DROWNED, 1 Duncdin, last Night. A srhool boy named Lawrence was drowned in <1 pool in the .Milton Domain yesterday afternoon, ile was bathing In company with other boys, and got in a h<de about five feet deep. Though there were adults about an alarm was not given until too late. The pool had beiL caused bv the recent Hoods, and . at a meeting yesterday of the Domain liiurd it was decided to 'have it tilled up.

ATTEMPT!',!) SfICIDE. XVlson. February Tile police received news this morning that a man named Macdonald. supposed 1 to be an employee at the railway extension works, jumped out of the window .it au hotel or accommodation house at Motucka Valley, t'hen picked np a piece of glass and cut his throat, lb' is being brought to town. Dr. Hudson thinks that he mav recover.

YOCXti MAX MISSIXC. Patea, Wednesday. A young man named Edward Partridge, aged '-ti, is missing from his home at Kohi, Wavcrlev. He was last seen nt. H.JM on Monday evening. Apprehension is felt regarding his safety.

, While driving between Puniho and Okato on Monday. .Mr. W. Af. Whelati met with a painful accident. Near the Okato llott'l the horse, took fright at some pigs 011 the road. Mr. Whelan whipped the horse, it plunged forward, causing the trace to break. Then the animal bolted and ran the vehicle 'into a post at Putts' corner. The sudden stop freed the animal from the harness and pulled Mr. Whelan, who was clinging to the reins, 011 to the road, lie was -picked up hi an unconscious condition and taken <to the OUalo Hotel. Dr. Walke.r was summoned, and found the patient to be suffering from a fracture at the- base of the skull. He was removed to the New Plymouth Ilos-pi-tal on Tuesday-.