ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1920, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

EBDERLY MAN'S SUiaDE. By Telegraph,—Press Association. Marton, -March 22. An elilerly man, named Richard Adams, married, was found hanging from a tree at Marton Junction on Saturday, He had been in ill health for some time. At the inquest this morning a verdict of suicide was returned. A MAN MISSING. Wellington, March 22. Hamilton Albert Davys, a single man, aged 50, is missing. He had been staying ■with a sister. The latter, who has been, on a holiday, hearing nothing from her brother, returned on Saturday, and found jthc house in 'order and no sign of the brother. Davys is an enthusiastic bather, and as his bathing suit is missing from the house it seems probable that he may have gone bathing and been drowned. Davys, who was a gardener, was in comfortable circumstances. CHILD BADLY INJURED. Christchnrch, March 22. A distressing occurrence took place at Green Park on Saturday on a train on which a school picnic party was returning to ChristcTiurch, a little girl, Mary Wright, having her right hand fractured above the wrist and her left arm broken above the elbow. The train was stationary at Green Park for a short while and on the next set of rails were several cattle tracks. The girl's arms were dangling from the carriage window ami as the train moved they struck the open door of a cattle truck. The guard aDplied first aid and, on arrival at Christehurch. the suffererer was removed to tUg hospital.