ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 11, 1 June 1914, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

KILLED, BY A TRAMCAB. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, May 30. Charles Maleotes, aged 62, died in the hospital of an extensive fracture of the flk«il. He was "walking across u, road carrying a bag of wood and failed to notice a tram-car driven by W. Utting, which knocked liira down.

FAEM LABORER KILLED. Dunedm, Last Night. John Semple, a single msin, aged aii years, employed as a farm laborer at MUburni, met with a serious accident yesterday. Bo was engaged in carting hay and thistles. When leaving <tli|C paddock witih a load he Host his 'balance and fell heavily from Itlie cart to tJhe ground. He landed on Ma head and shoulders, and ou attempting to ™e found that he had last the use of his limbs. The unfortunate man ivaa conveyed to itJie hospital, where lie died.

FOUND DEAD. Dunedin, Last Night. I This morning the body of 'Robert Mai J eolin Crosibie, manager of Burt and Com pany's factory at Port Obaiiinibcrs, wk) has been missing since Wednesday week, woo found in Lower Dundas Hi., by some boys who were looking for rabbits. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Dunedin, Last Nighit, A man named Morrison, in tno en\ ploy of the Dunedin City Corporation at Waipori Falls, cut his throat ion Saturday. He had bean in Dunedin and returned to tlie Kills on Thursday, and was working on Friday. A doctor wan procured from Outram and dnossed the wound, wWch appeared to be bad. Mor. rison tore the bandages from big wound , and attempted to rush off Ito the bu.-h. i Ho was conveyed to a hospital in Dun- | edin, where he lies in raihar a soiuoua | ooiditioa.