ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1917, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

MATH FROM A HALL. ~ •' \ By Telegraph,—Press Association. Auckland, May 23. John Adams, a married man, 70 years of age,' residing at Devonport, tripped on the wharf and fell into the He was rescued alive,but subsequently expired. SUICIDE -FROM FERRY STEAMER. Wellington, May 23. About 9 o'clock last niglit Hugh Doherty, a passenger in the Mararoa from Lyttelton, was found miß&ing, He left a note on the ice chest "This is a line to let you know I have gone overboard. Don't grieve." A man supposed to have been Doherty a passenger on tho steamer that' he came from Ashburton. A MOTORING DISASTER. Napier, May 23. A car, owned by Peter Smith, collided with the handrail of a bridge near/ Petane last night, Mr. and Mrs. Mooar and child, a man named Wilkinson, and two others being thrown out. The cJtild' was drowned, and the body has not yet been recovered. Mr. Wilkinson received minor injuries to his leg. Mrs. Mooar was thrown into the river, hut later wat rescued. Mr. and Mrs. Mooar and their youngest child are in hospital. The rear part of the car struck a wing of tho bridge as the car was entering. INQUEST ON ELECTROCUTED LINEMAN. Rotorua, Last Night. The inquest'on Jamqs CaSey, who was killed on May l'l while working at an electrjc light wire, was resumed before jMr. Dyer to-day. The evidence showed that deceased and William Herbert Hayden went to„repair<,a break in the linejto without reporting to the secpnd engineer at the sub-station, as they shoufd. They left tho switch out and'the current off. Their absen'ee on the line not being known at the Bub-station, the switch was (replaced, turning on current arid causing the accident. Hayden, who had received a bad shook, was only able to give evidence now. TJhe inquest was j further adjourned until Tuesday next.