ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 265, 16 December 1909, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

YOUNG MAN'S RASH ACTION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. John Dfiscoll, who bought poison in a chemist's shop yesterday, stating it was for killing a eat, but immediately to ; >k Jt himseli, was charged to-day with attempted suicide. He said he did not intend to do it, but he pleaded guilty. Sub-inspector Norwood, in obtaining 'a rema,:d for a week, said ihdt only this morning in the hospital Driscoll had i threatened to take another dose. | SERIOUSLY INJURED.

Pahiatua, Last Night. A man named Crease, traveller for Ballinger Bros., of Wellington, was thrown out of his gig this morning, sustaining concussion of the brain, the base of his skull being fractured; He was Men to the hospital, and there is little hope of his recovery. He lias a wife and family in Wellington.

BODY FOUND IN A RIVER. Napier, Last Night. The dead body of a man named John Weir, a laborer, lately employed in scrub-cutting at Tntira, was found in the river at Petane to-day. Some clothing and a swag were seen on the bank by passers-by, and this led to a search being made by a policeman, with the above result. Deceased was last seen alive on Tuesday, when he was walking towards Napier. "