ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 200, 2 December 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

YOUNG MAN KILLED.' By Telegraph.—Press Association. Timaru, Yesterday. At noon to-day a young man named J. A. Knowles, employed in Dalgety's stock department, was thrown out of a trap near Saltwater Creek and killed. A MANAGER KILLED. Invercargill, Last Night. George Thomas Smyth, a well-known resident of Invercargill, manager of the Southland Bread Company, was accidentally killed this morning. Deceased was stocktaking. While the engineroom men were employed in the bakehouse they noticed that the machinery, driven by a gas. engine, was slowing up. Going into the engineroom to ascertain the cause, they found the deceased lying on the floor with his head being struck by the spokes of the flywheel of the engine. He had apparently slipped and fell with his head through the flywheel, and he was quite dead when found. He was a prominent Mason, at one time Provincial Grand Master. He leaves a widow and family of four, whose ages range from eighteen to three years. OLD MAN'S SUICIDE. Auckland, Last Night. George. Stewart O'Halloran, aged 65 years, committed suicide by cutting his throat at his home in Parnell this afternoon. No reason is assigned for the deed, beyond the fact that he had been out of sorts for the last few days. He leaves a wife, a son, and three daughters, one of whom is married. The young man Edgar Johns, who was tossed by a bull at Bell Block a couple of days ago, is making satisfactory progress at the New Plymouth hospital.