ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 September 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(By TelegrapU—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night.

An, accident resulting in the Heath of Frank Breeden, a tram conductor, occurred at Oriental Bay a few minutes before 10 o'clock last evening. The deceased, a single man 24 years of age, was conductor on a combination car, winch was proceeding at about 14 miles an hour round Orien r tal Bay. The motorman heard the sound'of money falling on the road. He;pulled up the car immediately, and saw the deceased lying on the road some distance back. The deceased was removed to the hospital, suffering from a fracture of the skull, and at 2.25 this morning he died from hemorrhage of the brain. The ; deceased was -a native of New South Wales, and his parents reside in Sydney. William Samuel Spring, a married man, about 65 years of age, died suddenly (it is supposed from heart ■ failure) in Aro-street about 4.40 p.m. on Saturday. He had left the tram at the Aro-street terminus, and was walking along the road, when he was seen to fall. The body was removed to the morgue, where an inquest will be held. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Henry Spencer, a "railway carpenter, aged 39 years, residing at Lower Riccarton, was found changing" dead this morning in the washhouse. ; He had used a wire clothes-line for the purpose. At the inquest it was stated that deceased had a nervous breakdown two months and a-half ago, and had suffered from insomnia. He came out of the hospital yesterday afternoon, and slept in a separate room, and on his wife investigating this morning she found him as already described. A verdict was recorded that deceased committed suicide while in. a state of unsound mind. ! J ■