ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 June 1922, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A MOTOR FATALITY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Oamaru, Last Night. News was received in Oamaru to« night that Thomas McQuin, a wellknown auctioneer for the North Otago Farmers’ Co-op., was killed through a car capsizing qn Snowy Road, near Kurow. A passenger named Matheson had a leg broken. DEATH FROM POISONING. Hastings, June 27. A distressing poisoning fatality occurred on Saturday evening when a young married man named Michael J. Chaaf.e, aged 3S, lost his life. Deceased and a brother, Alfred, partook of' stout mixed with what they thought was port wine, »ot from a port wine bottle on a side table. The bottle contained weed killer. Alfred is still in a serjous condition. A FARMER SHOT. Napier, June 27. Sydney Wardell, aged about 30 and unmarried, was found shot through the head at his farm at Kaiwaka to-day. A shotgun was beside the body. His parents live at Christchurch. KILLED WHILE MOTORING. Hamilton, June 27. Lewis O’Neill, of Tauranga, faimei, forty years of age, was killed through a motor-car capsizing. Mrs. Brewis, of Hamilton, was driving her car containing her sister, Mrs. James Hill, of V\ ellington, and deceased, who was her brother, from Hamilton East to the cemetery. When negotiating a sharp bend the car went off the edge of the road and capsized, coming to rest upside down at the bottom of a six foot bank. The occupants were imprisoned underneath. Mr. O’Neill was apparently killed outright, but Mrs. Brewis and Mrs. Hill escaped with bruises.