ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 221, 24 January 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A BATHING FATALITY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Monday. Arthur John Backhouse, a young man, who was bathing with two others in a creek at Taupaki, suddenly sank, and when his body was recovered life was extinct. A RIDING ACCIDENT. Auckland, Monday. Elsie Howe, aged fourteen years, re. siding at Avondale, was thrown froiii her horse and sustained a fractured skull, and is now in the hospital in a critical condition. BURNED TO DEATH. Wanganui, Monday. His brother and sisters who reside here, received word on Saturday that W. Gordon, who kept the Half Way House on the Taupo-Rotorua road, was burned to death on Saturday morning. There are no particulars to hand, but it is understood his hut caught fire while he was asleep.. He was a single man, aged about 50.

KNOCKED OVER BY A TRAM. Dunudin, Monday. Margaret Smith, an elderly woman, was knocked down by the Kaikorai tram and sustained severe injuries, but has every chance of recovery. A PASSENGER'S DEATH. lnvercargill, Last Night. A steerage passenger by the Warrimoo, A. Rush, who joined the steamer Warrimoo at Hobart, was found on arrival at the Bluff to be in a state of collapse. He had taken no food on the voyage, and was too far gone to give an account of himself, and before he could be brought to the hospital ho died.'

DROWNED AT NAPrER. ' Napier, Last Night. A fatality occurred on the Marine Parade beach at 0.15 this evening, when a married man, a tailor's cutter, named S. M. Clapham, wont into the water for a bathe. lie was in the water not more than three minutes, when it was seen that he was incapacitated. An incoming wave brought the unconscious man ashore before the would-be rescuers had time to reaeh the surf. Restorative measures were applied, and continued for four hours, with the aid of ambulance workers and two doctors, bui without consciousness returning. It is supposed that death was partly due to heart failure. SUICIDE AT CTIRISTCIIURCH. Christchurch, Last Night. The police were informed this afternoon that Mr. Arthur Calcott, who has been for some years an officer of tinAgricultural Department, and who has recently been acting as chief clerk ot the Christchurch oll'ice of the Department, had died suddenly at his residence in Durham street. St. Albans, under circumstances suggesting suicide. Dr. Goulburn Gibson was called in by Mr. Calcott's family, but he could do nothing, Mr. Calcott expiring shortly after the doctor's arrival. An inquest was held this evening, and a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned.