ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 156, 19 November 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SUICIDE AT ELTHAM. By Telegraph—Press Association. F.ltham, Monday. A man named Candish, 45 years ol age, a carpenter, committed suicide ';■■ shooting himself with a shot gun tins morning. His wife was startled by the shot, and discovered blood coming under the bathroom door. The police were communicated with, who forced the door and found the man dead, in a pool of blood, with a gun by his side. The cause of the act is unknown. Candish leaves a wife and four children.

A CABMAN KILLED. Auckland, Monday. William Chapman, aged 41, residing in Ponsonby, when driving a caJt> on Saturday night, crossed the road leaving the railway station and collided with a tram-car. The cab was thrown against a post and smashed into splinters. Chapman was thrown from the cab and sustained concussion of the brain and fracture of the base of the skull. He was removed to the hospital, where he died yesterday. Bert Breen, a Wajhi miner, who was in tlie eab,-escaped with slight injuries. A TRAIN FATALITY.

Auckland, Monday. As the train from Auckland arrived at Huntly nn gatnrday afternoon, a woman was seen to fail'under the. wheel of a passenger carriage. She was apparently stepping from the platform to the train before, the latter had stopped. She fell between the carriage and platform. When the spectators rushed to the woman's assistance, a wheel of the carriage was resting on the top of the woman's body. Death had been instantaneous. The woman has not been identified. She was about 40 years old, with slight traces of Maori origin.

The victim of the fatality is believed to be the wife of a Te Akau settlor named Dimock, who was visiting Huntly, it is understood, for the purpose of entering a nursing home.

THE ÜBIQUITOUS PEA-RTFLE. Wellington, Last Night. Charles Symcs, a middle-aged man residing in Petone, was admitted to the hospital last right suffering from the effects of a bullet wound from a pea-rifle. He and his son, aged 15 years, were out shooting yesterday afternoon, when the son accidentally shot him in the head. Symes had fired at a rabbit and missed, and in dodging aside to give his son an opportunity 'to shoot ho received the contents of his son's pea-rifle in the hack of his .head. This morning the injured man was progressing well, and a slight operation was performed at midday. His condition, however, is reported to be dangerous this evening, and the bullet has not been extracted.