ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 250, 22 April 1912, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A BOY'S SUICIDE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, Saturday. At the inquest on the lad Charles Alexander Pallar, who absconded from iVeraroa training farm and hanged iimself in the police cell, the evidence )f Burlmson, master of the farm, went » show that deceased of a peculiar ;empcrament. He had been twice punshed at the farm, but not severely. The ury returned a verdict of suicide, there lemg no evidesce 'to show the state of he boy's mind. ACCIDENT TO A Fllir.MAN. . . Taihope. Saturday. A railway fireman named A. V. Round vas brought into the hospital sufferin* rom a serious fracture of the skull He vas fixing a shovel at the back of the ender in the vicinity of the overhead indge at Mataroa. About 5 a.m thej Inver missed him, and found him lyi n « it the back end of the tender. He is issumed to have been struck by the mdge. His condition is critical. He is •elieved to belong to L'eeston or ChristihurcJj. A DROWNING FATALITY. Christehureh, Last Night; The body of a Christehureh builder yho has been missing for a week was ound this morning near Amberley, in a rater hole, about threcquarters of a 11 de away from the whare where he was ivmg while superintending a job, and where-he was last seen. The body was found floating on the surface of the water.