ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 321, 10 July 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MORPHIA POISONING. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Tuesdiy. At the adjourned inquest on the body of Francis Charles Marquand, chemist's assistant, who died suddenly 4p a private hospital on Sunday week, a ver--1 diet of death from morphia poisoning was returned. MAN LOST AT SEA. Dunedin, Tuesday. Murray, Roberts, and Co., agents for the Wilconnia, have been advised that Charles Crisp, a middle-aged man, interested in African mining operations, disappeared at sea during the voyage from Melbourne to Fremantle. Crisp booked in Dunedin, and friends are asked for. A FIREMAN DROWNED. Westport, Tuesday. Lionel Dornev, a fireman on the Taviuni, fell between the wharf and the vessel last night and was drowned. The police are dragging the river for the body. A companion jumped after Dorney, but Was rescued by the crew in ft drowning condition.

A DELIBERATE SUICIEfc. • b Wellington, Last Night. William Robert Prior, a man of middle ' age, according to an eye witness, threw ' himself across the railway line at Thorndon yesterday afternoon, and 'was instantly killed by an incoming tram frtfm Johnsonville. Prior was a wharf laborer, and as far as could be ascertained wa# unmarried. The engine driver, Gattge Pearce, stated that as the train was approaching the viaduct across the * Hutt road, he saw the man walking alongside the line, but took no particular notice of him, as lie thought he was a permanent way inspector. The man was walking towards the train, and! when he was ;witliin about ten or twelve yards of the engine he suddenly threw himself across tke line, his head resting •on one rail and his feet on the other. Pearce immediately put on thg, omerj gertcy brake, but was unable to r firtll up the _train on the steep incline until the | engine was partly over the recumbent iiian. His head and both arms were completely severed from the body by the engine wheels, end his left foot was badly Death must have been instantaneous. I | FOUND DROWNED ! Wellington, Last Night. I At the inquest on the body of the man found in the harbor on Sunday the evidence showed that deceased was Jamis I Stewart, a laborer, recently employed at j Silverstream. He was a single man, with [relatives in Canterbury. A verdict of j found drowned was returned.

. !Ai CHILD KILLED, Dunedin, Last Night. A girl named Kathleen McLeod, aged four years and two months, was killed ft Caversham this afternoon by b<nng run over by a van. She had been skipping on the footpath with other girls, and suddenly ran out and was knocked down and killed instantly, her skull being fractured. ' \