ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 143, 4 November 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A SCHOOLBOY'S SUICIDE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. The supposed suicide of a schoolboy at Leithfield is reported. The facts are stated to be that the body of Cyril Moore, fourteen years old, who resided with his grandparents, was found in a waterhole at Leithfield at 9 p.m. yesterday by a farmer named McLean. On October 31 Moore attended an examination at Amberley, and on his return liome his grandmother (Mrs. Franks) asked him to go and get her some water. He appeared at the time to be very much worred over his examination, and informed Mrs. Franks that he thought he had failed. He did not return with the water, but 'his grandparents were not anxious about his disappearance, as lie was in the habit of going away to relatives who reside at Ornihi. When the body was found it wis clothed in boots, trousers and shirt. The police authorities state that it appears to be a case of suicide. "ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE." Wellington, Last Night. •Tane Hay Allen, a widow, residing in Tinakori road, was found dead this morning about 11 o'clock. She was last seen alive by Charles Borck, a laborer with whom she had been living for about five years, and who reported the death. Deceased was the widow of the late Wm. •Allen, a guard for many years on the Wairarapa mail train. When the police entered the room the body was lying in a dirty bed, with dirty blankets, and the room was in a filthy condition. The face was much swollen, and the body discolored from head to foot. At the morgue the police were about to remove a ring from one of t*e fingers when the flesh came away, leading to the supposition that deceased's system was in a very bad state, or else that death had taken place earlier than stated by Borck. He stated that the woman was addicted to drink. A post mortem is probable, as the doctors refused to give a certificate of death. I A BUSH-FELLER'S FATE. Dannevirke, Last Night. A young Victorian named Neil McKay, twenty-four years of age, met with an accident while bush-felling at Ruaroa on Friday, and died in Dannevirke hospital yesterday. When a sapling he was working on fell, it dislodged an old limb of a tree which had been hung up in the! branches. This struck the ground and bounded towards McKay, who put out his axe-head to protect himself. The tree drove the axe handle into McKay's stomach, inflicting injuries to his abdomen, from which he died, no operation being performed owing to his condition. The jury, at the inquest, found a verdict of accidental death, with no blame attachable to anybody. Deceased's parents live in Victoria. . A BROKEN NECK. Napier, Saturday. Vere Bolge, aged 53, a widower, was found at the bottom of a cliff, 33 feet high, in Milton road, this morning with his neck broken. It is believed that deceased fell over whilst on his way home last night at 9 o'clock. He was a painter by trade, but had been unemployed for a fortnight. A BOY DROWNED. Palmerston North, Saturday. A drowning accident occurred at Foxton yesterday afternoon. Calloway Robinson, the twelve-year-old son of Mr. Robinson, a flaxmill manager, was bathing at Foxton Heads, along with other lads, when he got beyond his depth. The body has not yet been recovered. ENGINE-DRIVER KILLED. Te Kuiti, Saturday. ■E. Kinsman, driver of a ballast train, left Te Kuiti for the south at 6.20 this morning, and was killed at the bridge over the Mokau river at Puketutu. Full particulars are not yet obtainable. It is surmised that deceased was looking out of the cab, when he overbalanced and his head struck the bridge. Death was instantaneous, Deceased came recently from the sout*. and was making his first trip.