ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 356, 6 April 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A WIUIIF i.UUUIKFIt HURT. . ]ij- Telegraph.-Pres* Awo*intioß. Auckland, April 6. ' •Juhn .Saunders a wharf labourer, was struck on I In' back of tlic nock Uj a bag of sugar which slipped from. tlio slings. He liad Ms spine fractured, causing paralvsis, lie was rcmoted to thr hospital. Hi.s condition is aeriOUf

I.'AI'OIIT IN THE KF.I.TING Wanganni, April 5. A voting man named Hrookie, rrnployed in the local brewery, had a .ir> row escape of being dashed to piecrs. He was caught in the belting wh*n trying to shift a belt, and carried to the bop of (lie shafting. His crip* attracted thr engineer, who was fortunately handy, and -tupped the machinery. Hrookie had his thigh broken ar.l wax coii'idcrablv .diaken.

SHCIFE AT ATTKLAXD. Auckland. April 5. Frederick V»'i '■..'. -.u,., ■{',,, i'o y, ar« of age. boarding ,u Pon-unby, -hot. himself twice with a revolver. Two shots were hoard. Wrigglesworlh was found in b»d with a smoking revolver in hi«S kind, hi* shirt ablaze, a bullet wound in his left temple, and another in hi* left brea-t. but there i.s little hope of hi* reeovvry. Immediately previous WriggleMYovth- appeared in exeellsnt tpirits.'. Auckland. Last Night. Frederick .WriHesworth died at the hospital this afternoon. MAX SHOOTS HIMSELF. Dunedin, April 5. The police have been advised that 01 mnn named James Stewart, residing with his mother at Sawyers fiay, ootn'« niitted suicide this afternoon by shoo?* ing hims'elf with a pea rifle.