CASUALTIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 12 April 1926, Page 12

CASUALTIES.

DROWNED IX AY ELL. By Tel^crnph — Press Association FKIJjDI NO. . April JO. Millieent Mury Marshall ■ (48), wife of Edwin Manlmll, ii farmer at Stanway, drowned herself in a well on her home property this afternoon. -She Imd only returned home the previous day after thirteen months in a menial hospital, and was missing only a. few minutes. Search was made, and the hotly was found in the well, with a brick tied to the neck. CARTER. AXIf TEAM -'.DROWNED. By Telegraph—Press -Association. WELLINGTON, April'll.; i John Albert Clark, a. carter with .seven children, residing at Pctoiie, was dt owned in tlie Hntt river on. Saturday afternoon. "• Deceased was engaged in carting shingle from the riverbed, a, three-horse .- tram being employed. While emerging : from the river, . he made a mistake . in' the point for crossing. ‘Man, cart and horses wero plunged into a fifteen-feet water hole. The tide' was in at the time, which increased the depth of water at the hole. Clark and the three hsmses were, ti; owned.

RETROD EXPLOSION. The disaster was followed by a dangerous and foolish act. '• A young man from Retone attempted to fill the tank of a ear with benzine with the aid of a naked hurricane lamp. In the subsequent explosion, lie bad a narrow escape from death. 'The fire destroyed a she-.l am! live cars belonging to various residents. .INJURED BY MOTOR CAR. By Teleurnph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, April I). A serious accident occurred .on Salrrda.v afternoon at about 4 o'clock, at the intersection of Burleigh Street and Kliyber Pass. A middle-aged woman named Mrs Allington, of Kliyber Pass, was knocked down by a motor car a moment after she ‘ bad alighted from an Onelmnga tram-car. inward bound to the city. The lady was immediately taken to" hospital, from where it was reported to-day that her condition was virions. ' The driver of the car was 'William James Ashdown. aged' about JO, a lcsidont of Mount Albert, wlio was .subsequently arrested on. a- charge of being in a. state of intoxication whilo in charge of a motor car. FOUND DROWNED. By Teleprauh—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, April 10. The fully clothed - body or a middle aged man was found ip the Avon near Brighton this morning. Jt. bad been dead only a-few hours. So-far it lias not been identified.