CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15263, 27 April 1915, Page 4

CASUALTIES.

(press association teleoeam.) FEILDING, April 26. There was a fata] accident at Kimbolton to-day. Mr A. J. Pettigrow, a very old settler and contractor, was working in a gravel pit on his own farm when a fall of gravel buried him. No one else was present at the time. His'son,-'who-had .gone'with a load of gravel,, on returning'- found his father beneath the fall. Life: was extinct when the body jvas secured. HAMILTON, April-26. A remarkable accident happened at the military camp at Morrinsville on Sunday. A party of visitors were being shown round the camp, and were having the mechanism of the machinegun demonstrated to them. A belt of dead cartridges was being used, and inadvertently a live cartridge got into the; b.vol and! went off, striking a man named Thompson on* the boot and cutting a piece out. but not injuring the wearer. The bullet then ricocheted and entered the.leg of another visitor named Smith, who was subsequently admitted to the Waikato Hospital, with apparently the bullet still in his lee An onquirv is being held. GRfiYMOUTH. April 26. A young man named John O'Neill, single. 30 years'of <ige. was found dead in a- bedroom at the Royal Hotel this afternron. The door was locked, and when it was forced. O'Neill was found, Iving on the floor with his throat cut. There was a razor near tho body. The young man had boon in a depressed state of health lately.