ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 189, 8 February 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

TWO MEN KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Wednesday.. The midday train from Christchurch to Rangiora ran into a motor car at the Styx railway crossing and struck the car full on the side. Brown, the driver of the car, was killed instantly. The other man, whose name is unknown, died in a few minutes. Details are m«agre. Brown travels for the Overland Car Co. SUICIDE OF A LAD. Cambridge, Wednesday. Charles Morse, a lad of fifteen years, committed suicide by shooting himself with a gun, blowing his right temple off. The boy had been punished by his father for serious misconduct, and his parent, as a warning, pointed out the enormity of the misdeed, and the punishment meted out in such cases. It is assumed that the boy had become apprehensive of criminal proceedings, and had taken his life to avoid the consequences of his actions. The fatal shot was heard soon after his chastisement.

AGED DIGGER'S SUICIDE. Reefton, Last Night. An old digger, named Michael Carroll, aged 72 years, committed suicide at Soldiers' Creek, by blowing out his brails. DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION. ' Christchurch, Last Night. An inquest.was held at Lyttelton this morning before Mr. A.. W. Bishop, District Coroner, on the body of Thomas Heeligan, who was found dead in his bed in the firemen's "batch" yesterday morning. The coroner returned a verdict that Heeligan died from suffocation, due to excessive alcohol. A POISONING CASE. Christchurch, Last Night. A man named Thomas Brackley, belonging to Aah'burton, died at the hospital to-day from corrosive poisoning. At the inquest to-night the evidence showed that the man had bought a sleeping draught from a local chemist, and had also got two powders somewhere else. He took one of the powders, and that is supposed to have been the cause of death. A verdict of death from poisoning, there being no evidence to show where the man got it, was returned. CHILD FATALLY SCALDED. Auckland, Last Night. A child named Robert Cuthbertson, aged two years; died from scalds at the hospital to-day, as a result of pulling a vessel of boiling water over himself.