ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 258, 22 March 1913, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

:nATR DR ESSKRS' SUICIDE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wanganui, Thursday. Fred Crane, aged 38 years, a hair--dresser, was found dead this morning. At the inquest tin; evidence disclosed that (.Vane's lather heard a shot about six o'clock (his morning. Going out to ascertain the cause, lie found his son lying on the ground with a gun alongside him. A verdict was returned that deceased shot himself while temporarily insane. A SHOOTING FATALITY. Christehurch, Last Night. Brief particulars of the shooting fatality which occurred at Ilororata yesterday were received to-day. The body of James Phillips, aged fio, a farmer residing ill the Coalgate district, was found with the top of his head blown off by a gunshot. Phillips was out rabbit shooting, and it is assumed that the fatality was the result of an accident. A CASE OP SUICIDE. Christehurch, Last Night. A shooting fatality occurred at Rangiora last night, under somewhat unusual circumstances. John Samuel Ingram, *25 years of age. unmarried, returned to his father's house slightly under the influence of liquor. His father remonstrated with him, and young Ingram went upstairs. got a revolver, and came down again. It is not yet quite clear whether he deliberately shot himself, or whether the revolver went off W accident, but the bullet entered his head, and he died at 12.30 a.m. to-day. A RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Christehurch, Last Night. Miss '.Mary Ellen Hedge-man, twenty ] years of age, residing at Islington, met i with a serious accident whilst standing on the railway station platform at Islington. By some means she got too near the engine of an incoming train, which struck tier. Medical aid was called for, and it was found that Miss Hedgeman was suffering from internal injuries and from concussion of the brain. MOTOR CYCLE COLLISION. Wellington, Last Night. About eight o'clock last night a motorcycle ridden by Andrew Clouston, wharf laborer, collided with a hansom cab in Jervois Quay. Clouston had his wife and child in a side car attached to the cycle. Clouston and Dolman, the driver of the cab. say that they were on the right side of the road. When near the cab the cycle swerved and got under the front of the cab. and was only extricated with great difficulty. Clouston had his nose broken ami his face cut. Mrs. Clouston was severely shaken, but the child was uninjured.