Accidents and Fatalities.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxii, Issue 6456, 28 December 1904, Page 3

Accidents and Fatalities.

United Press Association—By Eleotric Telegraph.

Auckland, Dec. 27

A. middle-aged man, whose name is believed to be Deavoine, committed su'Cido in Albert Park, between six and seven o'clock this evening by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. He pat th« birrel in his mouth, and the bullet p-.ssed out at the back of his head, death being apparently instantaneous. Nothing is known regarding the man except that he was a fish hawker and a Frenchman. He is said to have attempted t'> shoot himself in the same park about a fortnight ago. Search was then made for him by the police without tuo^ess. OpRi&TCHURCH, Deo. 28.

Up to noon yesterday the body of the lad David She ward, who was drowned at sumHer on Monday, had not been recovered. The eiaht years old daugher of Mr J. Livingstone, Soathbrook, while driving a cow ovur a. railway crossing on Monday, was knocked down by an engine, with tb.H result that her arm wai broken and her head cut The child is said to have been deaf. Kaieoura, Dee. 27 Dr Ha'se Francis, a landi.-al practitioner in the district died this moraing as a result of ai over l"se of morphia, inadvertently takfn, Dr Guan was in constant attendance, but all antidotal attempts at resuscitation failed. Dunedin, Deo. 27 A young: man, John Davis was shot in the leg yesterday through a gun which was being handled by another mm going off while the latter was standing three or foar feet from Davis. Dari3 had to have his leg amputated to-day Wellington, Dec 27

A swaeg-T nam^d Peter Joha isen was found dead suspended by rope i > a bar" at, Oh -riu Valley. The deceased was 37 years of age, and had attempted suicide on a previous occasion. The verdict was one of suicide. Invercabgill, Deo. 27 Char'oß Fmnces, o f Wyndhatn, a boarding house keeper, left ha home on Friday night, and was found drowned in a lagoon on Christmas Day. He had been drinking heavily, and it is supposed committed euioide. Napier, Deo 27

A fatal aooident occurred on Monday night iB r Hastings, a waggon driver named James f*eary being killed, apparently by falliDg from a waggon, the wheels of ■which had parsed over his neck, which was br"lcen, and there were severe bruises about the bedy. The body was discovered on the Maraekakho road. About a chain further on, a six-horse waggon was found with some of the horses tied to the fence at the roadside. Information was subsequently received that a native had found the korses entangled in the harness, and had cut them loose and tied them up The native was summoned to attend the inquest, hafc did not do so. An adjournment was made to January 4th, in order that tj»e evidence of the- native might be pbtainpd.