ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 131, 21 October 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

KILLED BY A CAET. By Telegraph—Prees Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Carey's Bay, Port Chalmers, 42 years of age, and married, was knocked down by a grocer's cart in Mac Andrew road on Saturday evening and picked up unconscious. He was token to the, Cottage Hospital, where he died to-day without regaining consciousness.

PRISONER DIES SUDDENLY. ■Wellington, Last Night. A prisoner named Frederick Williams died suddenly at the Terrace gaol this morning at 8 o'clock. The deceased had his breakfast and afterwards tidied up his cell. Some few minutes before nine o clock ,Jvv;hen the prisoners were preparing for church service and exercise, the prisoner officer .visited the deceased's cell and found the man lying on the floor, expiring. He had evidently just finished l folding his blankets, because he bad them all ready to place in their proper position. Williams, who was thirty-eight years of age, was sentenced at Napier on February 21, 1911, to five years imprisonment for breaking and entering at Napier. At no time had he complained of .sickness. He was of a quiet disposition, and was never troublesome.