ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 302, 22 December 1898, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

xilfred Heathcote, a teacher at Wairio, was killed by falling- from a tram on November 26... A man named Jones died in the Dunedin Hospital on December 13 from injuries received by a fall from a ladder. A boy named Francis Joseph Thomson, 14 years old, was killed by being run over by a traincar on the Mornington line on December IS. Information has been received that Michael O'Meara, aged 62, a settler at Okato, was killed on December 11 by being thrown from his. horse. A young man named McGlone, emloyed in the post-office at Denniston, was drowned while -bathing* in the Westpo'rt Coal Company's dam on December 4. |. Between nine and ten o'clock on the morning of December la boat accident occurred at St. George's Bay, Parnell, which resulted in Robert Watt, a youth, of about eighteen, being drowned. At Poro-o-tarao on November 29 a young girl named Nellie Carboy cut her throat. She was 20 years of age. Her parents reside at Whatawhata. She was a waitress for six months at Hunt's boarding-house at the tunnel. A verdict of suicide was returned. Mr Gillander, manager of. the Gordon Creamery, Te Aroha, was drowned on Tuesday afternoon, December 20th, while bathing with, school children in the Waihou River. He w;ts not a swimmer, and got out of his depth, where the current was too strong for him. Two scholars went to his as sistance, and were nearly drowned through Mr Gillander s struggles. The body has not been recovered. Deceased was aged 21. He came from Ngaruawahia. A sensation was caused in Avondale on Dec. 20 by the discovery of the dead body of Mr John Rubbick Stych , in the cellar of the Avondale Hotel", of in the cellar of the Avondale Hotel, ,of which he was the licensee. The wound was just below the right ear, and examination showed that the muzzle of the gun must have been held close to the head when th« shot was fired. A revolver, loaded in each of its six chambers, was discovered in one of the pockets of the deceased's coat, while in the other pocket was another cartridge for the shot-gun. 1