Accidents and Fatalities.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9014, 27 December 1907, Page 5

Accidents and Fatalities.

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MOTOR FATALITY,

CAR GOES OVER EMBANKMENT.

INVERCARGILL, December 26,

A motor accident occurred near Wallacetown, eight miles from Invercargill, on Christmas Day. A motor party of three ladies and two children, driven by R. J. Cumming, were returning from a trip to Riverton. At a turn leading to the bridge over the river, Cumming, an inexperienced driver, saw that he was not taking the turn properly, and to avoid crashing into the bridge turned off, intending to run the car parallel with the river bank. He lost his head, however, and did not turn sufficiently, with the result that the car shot straight over an eight-foot bank, and landed squarely on its wheels in the stream. Fortunately the water was not deep where the car landed, and the occupants, who had jumped or fallen clear of the car, scrambled into it with the exception of one child and a young lady, named Daisy Lumsden, who floated down the stream to deep water. Cumming waded in and rescued his child, but as he was unable to swim he could not reach the young lady, who gradually sank and was drowned. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of drowning, as the result of a motor accident.

EODY FOUND. CHRISTCHURCH, December 26. The body of Geo. Fuller, a bootmaker, who has been missing since November 20th, was found to-day at Sumner in a lupin patch. A revolver was found by the side of the body. AUCKLAND, December 26. The body of a young man, named Samuel McDonald, of Devonport, was found in the harbour, near the dock. A man, named Henry Newman, had his skull fractured through stepping off a moving tram-car in the wrong direction. He is in a serious condition. WELLINGTON, December 26. The police have been informed that Margaret Ronaldson Sharpe, wife of James Sharpe, corndealer, Lower Hutt, hanged herself to-night. At the inquest on the body of Mrs Edith Green, which was found at the foot of the cliff at Island Bay, a verdict of accidental death was returned. The evidence showed the deceased's home was destroyed by fire some time ago, and this had affected her mental condition. StaboecS With a Parasol. A WOMAN ARRESTED.

AUCKLAND, December 26,

A peculiar incident happened in Queen Street. A young woman, named Annie Irwin, was passing along with two companions, when some words were exchanged between them and some men standing by the footpath. The woman Irwin is alleged to have returned and threatenad to break her umbrella over them if they molested her. Chas. Hudson denied interfering with her, whereupon she poked her parasol at him, and the thin steel end wounded him in the neck. The woman was arrested. Attempted Suicide. NAPIER, December 26. A man, named Campbell Sampson, a cook employed at the Longlands station, near Hastings, attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat, on Tuesday, but he was discovered soon after the attempt and taken to the Napier Hospital, where he is improving. He is stated to be Buffering from heart disease.