ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 48, 15 July 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DEATH FROM A FALL. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Margaret Lorie, 78 years of age, died in the hospital this morning as the result of an accident at Port Chalmers on Tuesday night. She lived with her son, David Lorie, and was going out at 6.30 p.m. to bring in some stockings, but missed the path and fell ten feet down a bank on to the railway line, sustaining a broken leg. A MYSTERIOUS DEATH. Wellington, Last Night. Ada Love, wife of Walter Love, was found dead at her residence, Whittaker street. She declined to accompany her husband to a picture show last evening, saying that she was -unwell. When he returned at 10 p.m. she was lying on the bedroom floor and asked to be left alone. Her husband placed «a pillow under her head, covered her up, and went to bed. When lie awoke in the morning she was dead.

i KILLED IN A LIFT. Wellington, Saturdav. A fatal accident occurred at Kirkcaldie and Staines' premises this morning, Saul Garsbook, :>. tailors' presser. being crushed in the lift we!!. Garsbook was married. There were no eye-wit-nesses of the accident, but it appeared that deceased had operated the lift himself without waiting for the storeman as he usually did. The storeman found the lift jammed, and. on investigating, found it held at the third storey by deceased's body, which was badlv'crushed. Gasbook worked on the third storey, and had apparently thrown off his bievcle there, and then returned to the lift to prevent it from going further. ■