ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 173, 14 August 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

CABMAN FATALLY INJURED. By Telegraph.—Press Asaoehtfioa. Chrisitchurch, Last Night. This morning a cabman, named Thomas Mann, residing on Ferry road, was driving back from the Metropolitan Trotting Club's ground* at AddiugUm when his vehicle came into collision with the St. John's Ambulance Association'* van. Mann was thrown from his aeat,, falling to the ground and he was picked up suffering from serious injuries to iiii head. The ambulance vaa conveyed hire to the Christchurch hospital, where ha died about an hour and a half after admission.

YOUNG MAN TIRED OP UPR • Palmeraton N., Last Night. * Willie Rocktftrow, aged 28, ton of oa» of Palmeratoa's old settler*, «u foudd dead in his bed at his parent! 1 residence to-day. He had been very despondent of late, and had not been sleeping. Death resulted irom an opiate of some kind. It is understood that deceased, who was formerly in the Wellington Post Office, and was in South Afr.ea with the Seventh Contingent, had 'n- . timntcd to friends that he was tired of life and left a letter for his fathif. Ho was a particularly handsome man. BURNED TO DEATH.

Auckland, August 1.1. J nines O'Kecfe was burned to death, in a whure at Kumeu. A man who saw the wltare ablaze tried to force the door * open, but failed. The place was completely dmolished. O'Keefe's remains were subsequently found. i