ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 119, 13 October 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

KILLED BY A TRALi. By Telegraph.—Per Press Association. PaJmorston N., Yesterday. An old man named Henry Chalk anot with a tragic fate this morning by being run over by the Foxton train'at a •rossing. When tho train was abo't 100 yards ftwajn deceased was close to the line and looking towards the tra : n, which whistled', but whan it approached lie started to walk across. The brakes were applied but too late to prevent the tragedy. When picked up Chalk was ritill living, but died on reaching the station. Me had recently ar-ived fnoq» Pahiatua, and had been missing from his place of abode since Saturdav. PEA-RIFLE FATALITY. Tiinaru, Last Night. An aiinuest was held to-day concerning the death of Ernest Slhaw, aged 19, tlhc Son of a, Woodbury farmer. Th e deceased went-out with a on Sunday morning, and on Mondsvv tlie bodv was •found in the scrub, slhotl through the Iheart. The position of tho body indicated that deceased had probably slipped flown a steep Ibank, some 12 feet high. •The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. DROWNED IN A RIEVR. Timaru, Last Night. .John Leitch, aged 'dO, a fanner"near Pleasant Point, was found drowned in the Opilii river on Sunday. There is no

evidence to show how lie came, to In in the river, and at the inquest! a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE. > Napier, Yesterday. Catherine Ida Locking, daughter of the late Dr. Locking, committed suicide by throwing herself over the Bluff Mill early yesterday morning. A verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind was returned at- the inquest AX AiLLKY-WAY FATALITY. Wellington, Monday. James Gillow was lying in an alleyway leading to a motor garage oil Courtenniyi Place on Friday night, when the wheel of a motor-car passed over his head. He was taken to the hospital and died yesterday.