ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
CASES OF SUICIDE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, Sept. 8A girl named Alma Hintz, aged about 17, whose parents reside at Waliaroa, was run over and killed by the Rotorua express half a mile past Matamata yesterday. She left the Waikato Hospital a few hours previously, and arrived at Matamata by slow train, and from there was walking in the opposite direction to her home and threw herself m front of the train. The body was conveyed to Rotorun. Dunedin, Sept. 6. The name of the man whose death wan reported at Tahakopa was Archibald jM'Gill, a married man. whose home was at Dunedin. Late last evening, Constable Haywood, of Owaka, after a visit to the scene of the fatality, advised the Superintendent of Police in Duned-n that be was quite satisfied it I wss a case of suicide. M'G-ill was livI ins in a hut with another man. and a«"oPeded in distracting bis mate's attpntion for a few moments, during which be cut his throat, dying almost itumed'**- 1 -
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1918, Page 5
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