ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 295, 16 May 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A DKTERMINED SUICIDE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Thursday. At the impiest to-day on the body of Arthur Charles Wheeler, alias Charles John Christoiihor Tabrun, aged about 45, found at Kaiwarawara hut Sunday, evidence was given that the body had apparently been in the water for a fortnight, unci was much decomposed. The deseased's lcjj;.-i were tied together with a .handkerchief above the ankles, and the left arm was strapped to his logs.. It would have been possible for the deceased to tie himself up in the manner described. The Coroner returned an open verdict. KILLED IX A LIFT.

Wellington, Thursday. A fatal accident occurred at (libbons and Co.'s store on I.ainbton Quay, wiien Stephen Alderton was janibed between the lift and the top of the lift well. Nothing' was known of the accident until Cotlreil, a fellow employee, found AMerton's body. Cottrell says Aiderton put some bass of seed on the lift at the second lloor, and took them to the to]) lloor. As he did not return, Cottrell looked up and saw Aldcrtou's head stuck between the lift and the ceiling of the top Hour. Deceased, who had been hi (Millions and Co.'s employ for .about three years, is believed to have been a native of Napier. KILLED BY A TTUIN. Dunedin, Yesterday. Mi's. Alexander .Lockhart, an old resident was seeing a friend off by the express at Milton last night when she was caught by a train coining in the opposite direction. She sueeumbjd to her injuries during the night. SODDEN DEATH". Waimale. Yesterday. Frank :Inlui Lnmloii, an old and respected resident, died suddenly last night, 11-:' had been attending a St. Patrick club social and loft the hall to go home, about 12 o'clock. Others who left shortly afterwards found him: lying on the footpath and took him in a motor car to a doctor's house, where life was found to be extinct. Mr. London was aged .">!>. Ilcart-diaease is supjwsed to have beou the cause of his death.