ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 6, 26 May 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

OLD MAN'S SUICIDE. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright Christchurch, Monday. Yesterday William Thompson,' aged 75, an unmarried man, committed suicide at Rangiora by banging himself from a rafter. At the inquest a verdict was returned of suicide while temporarily insane. BURNT TO DEATH. Carterton, Monday. James Andrews, an old man, was burnt to death at Martinborough yesterday. >He was living with. John Lyons, also an old man. The Hatter went out early yesterday morning and when lie returned the 'hut was in flames. He tried to pull Andrews out, but was unable to do so ou account of the flames.

FALL FROM TRAIN, i Ashburlon. Monday. Joseph Nicholson, aged W>, a farm labourer, fell oil the late train from Ohre-tcluirch to Aslvburtou at Chertscy on .Saturday night, and sustained a fractured spine. A MISSING SKAMAN. 1 nve rca rgill. Monday. John Rec.s, master of the lishing vessel Violet, has been missing from Bluil since Kiiday. lie was last seen that, evening osi the whan' going' lowauls the vesse'. lie was under the mUncHee of liquor, and it 'c» siipviosed that, on boarding the boat, he fell into the harbor. The body has not been recovered. DEATH BY DROWNING. Invercavgill, Monday. J.dm Whelan. aged IS, was drowned ill Lake \Val;af.i|>u on Ssilimlav afternoon. While bagging coal on the wharf he fell into Hi'.' hike. His body has been recovered.