ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 238, 6 April 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A PRISONER'S SUICIDE, j By 9?elogr«]jk~Preßs Association.'.' ! _ Dunedin, April 4. : Francis Peter Ranee, a prisoner at DunedSn gaol, while exercising this morning, threw himself over a balcony abbut twenty feet ifrom the ground, and fractured his skull He was renvoveld to the hospital, where he died, He| arrived-/-from London in 1910, and' had almost completed serving a sentence of three months for false pretences. Dunedin, April 4. At the inquest on the body *# Ran<ce, the prisoner who- died this morning, as a result of jumping from w balcony, a verdict oif wilful suicide was returned, no bla'me being attachable to the gaol officials. ..„._...»: . ' SUDDEN DEATH. Auckland, April ,4. ; Adam A\es, caretaker of Rockynook Bowling Club, dropped dead while working on ithe green. He -was 70 years of age, and wla» one of the heroes of the Arctic expedition under Captains Nar.es and Stephenson in the early seventies. While a float's crew was incapacitated by scurvy, Ales travelled a hundred He was a chief petty officer in the British naivy, and was in receipt of a pension. KILLED BY "A PALL FROM A 'BUS. Auckland, April 4. _ A boy named Devoy, ten years of age, riding on lan omnibus at Deivonpwt, fell off and a wheel passedl over him. He was removed' to the hospital, where he died. KILLED IN A COLLISION. Auckland, April 75. IA fa'tal accident occurred! last evening at 'Eps'om, resulting in the of William Jones, .carter, of Ponsonby. Jones -was driving a Varfc when a tramcar collided with it from the rear* throwing; him out. ' He was picked- n-n unconscious, having sustained l several severe fractures ot 'the sikull. He died in the hospital to-day. Deceased was a married man, aged '44 years.