ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 73, 26 March 1919, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

KAH.WAY FATALITY.

MAN KILLED ON LEVELCROSSLNG.

AtTaonui (between Bunnythorpe and Teilding) on Saturday evening, a man, Francis Edward Ward Mabey, aged about 76 years, met his death by being run over by a train. Deceased, who resided with his brother near the Taonui station, was proceeding on foot to Feilding, shortly before 4.30 p.m., and was struck by a goods train when crossing the railway line. His skull was fractured and his right thigh broken. He was a man of independent means, and had been a resident of Taonui for about 1G years. MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. At Knituna this evening - . Mr. Harry I Ames was killed, as the result of his motor-cycle and side-car overturning' while rounding a sharp bend in the road, on which was a lot of loo?e shingle. His companion, Mr. Harold Jone3 well-known in the cycle trade, is in the hospital in an unconscious condition. INJURED IN COLLISION", INVERCARGILL, Tuesday. Archibald Craig, while riding a motorcycle, collided with a motor-car at Cooper's Corner, Wallacetown, this afternoon, and sustained a fracture of the skull. He is still unconscious. MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF. DUNEDIN, Tuesday. 'A report reached the South Dunedin police early this morning that a married man named Francis Owen McKay, a commercial traveller, residing in Brunswick Street, had shot himself in the head with a revolver. The injured man, who was removed to the hospital, is reported to be in a critical condition.