ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 189, 9 February 1914, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. l!y Telegraph—Press Association. Palmerston North, Last Night. A young man named Mu'rdoek, supposed to be a took, attempted to commit suicide this afternoon in a vacant section by cutting his throat with :i pocket knife, lie was taken to the hospital in a precarious condition.

.SUPPOSED SUICIDE AT DUNUDIN'. Dunedin, Last Night. Tlie body of a man about 55 years of age and about ftft. Sin in height was found in Tahitmt Park this afternoon. Particulars are very meagre, the body being on the way to the morgue. There was an open razor in the right hand and a wound on the left vrist, but no report is given of other injury. The body is clothed in a greenish cheeked suit, and there was a set of artificial teeth in one pocket. He appears to have been a working man, but there is no clue to his identity further than that tbi; trouser-buttons are branded A. 1!. Porter, Invereargill.

TEAMCAR FATALITY. ■, ClirUtc.hurch, Last Night. Shortly after G. 30 p.m. on Saturday, a man named George Westeott, well known about Christchurch, Van out of tlie Riecarton racecourse-gate to try and cateh a tramcar. He missed his hold and fell, and was run over by the trailer. He was taken to the hospital at once, but was dead when admitted. At t'na inquest this afternoon a verdict was returned of accidental death.