ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 319, 5 June 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ELECTROCUTED. •") * By Telegraph.—Press Association. . •Dunedin, Last Night. Robert Stewart Reid, aged 22, employed at the Halfway Bush transformer station, met his death this morning at the works. He was found dead by hit wife, having apparently accidently come in contact with a live wire. KILLED BY A TRUCK. Gore, Last Night. Joseph John Jenkins, aged 31 years, while waiting oh one of several trucks drawn by a traction engine in the main street on Saturday night, fell under the first truck and was crushed to death. He was a butcher by trade, but had lately been a laborer." A GUN ACCIDENT AT URUTI. A young man named Percy William* son, of Omata, was accidentally suot af Uruti on Saturday, and was admitted to the New Plymouth hospital yesterday morning in a critical condition, ~*e was out with a double-barrelled gun aftet pheasants, and tripped and fell, tha shock discharging both barrels, the con* tents of which he received in the chest. He was carried to a house close by. Dr, Wylie, surgeon, was summoned from New Plymouth, lieaving hero at about eleven o'clock. He had the patient brought in to the hospital, arriving here at about 5.30 on Sunday morning.