ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 193, 18 September 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SUPPOSED SUICIDE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Chrisfchurch, Friday. The dead body of a man was fou'id to-day at the New Brighton beach with a bullet wound through his right temple. It turned out to be the body ot Samuel Whaler Burkett, a retired publican, who had been living with hw wife and family at Linwood. Burkett left home, at 10 a.m. yesterday, anil was last seen at the New Brighton Hotel last evening, where he had a few glasses of beer. No trace of a revolver was found, but five cartridges were in a pocket. . THE DANGER OF BUSTING. Auckland, Last Night. Arthur Stanton, one of the men engaged at the reservoir works at Waitakerei, was tamping a hole i n which a fuse was placed for blasting, and in tome way the rod he was using exploded the charge, Stanton being killed by the rod Striking him on the chest. RUN OVER BY A COAL WAGGON. Westport, Last Night. , ,At an inquest held on Charles Dambrogio, tablet porter at Sergeant's Hill, who was 'killed by being run over by a coal waggon last night when shunting , a wagon on to a siding, a verdict of ( accidental death was returned, no blame being attachable. to anyone. A TRAIN FATALITY. , Westport, Last Night. i At 6.15 p.m. this evening W. M. Jlc- < lntyre, in attempting to hoard a train \ at Waimangaroa Junction, fell under ] the car and was killed. Mclntyre was \ over 30 years of age and was in the \ employ of the Westport Coal Co. (