ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 166, 7 August 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SUICIDE CASE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wanganui, August li. Frederick Moonrehoiise, who was arrested ..i-nlerduy in a helpless state of iiiituxiuitiuii, and who was remanded for a week for medical treatment, utrnngl d himself in bis cell last night. Deceased had been drinking heavily lately, and early yesterday morning broke into a hotel and was arrested. . Evidently ne was in a state of mental derangement, i Last night be tore, his shirt in strips, • as he lay in the padded cell, ami I strangled himself. Dei-eased was about I 40 years of age. He leaves a wife and three children.

A MAN MISSIXO. ltecfton, August G. Fears are entertained as to the safety of 1!. A. ISaxtcr, a young man representing the Singer Hewing Machine Company. Me was last seen coming to Keefton at Waiinonga, on the other side of the Little (irey Kiver, His dog re-; turned to the hotel, but the man has not since been heard of. FALL FliOM A SCAFFOLD. * Wellington, Last Xight. James Trevor, Welling! on eilv conn cillor. and head of the building' firm of Trevor and Son, fell from the scaffold o;i a building his iirm its erecting in Wellington, lie fell about i'l feet. ' His left collarbone was broken and his left arm severely cut about, while his head was cut and bruised in several places. Xo fears arc "entertained that lie will not have a satisfactory recovery.