ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 122, 15 February 1908, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

-r.-'. ■ ♦. ■ . '- 1 ■. ' (BY TELEOEiPH—riIESS ASSOCIATION.); ' THE. MORERE DROWNING ACCIDENT. ■; V/airca, February 14. ,At aii inquest on the'body of J. W. Fawcett, drowned at the Morere hot springs, thei evidenco showed that deceased jumped from o hot into a cold pool ten feet 1 deep. All tho witnesses said that death ; was' .due to shock. Deceased was-about twenty-eight ; years old, and well' educated. Ho was a j native of Yorkshire, and came to New Zealand threo years ago. . RAILWAY ACCIDENT. . Dunedin, February; 14. .' ■William "Wilson, tho boy who was badly injurod in tho railway yard ,on Friday even-' ing,,: died in .the hospital yesterday.; :.' REPORTED SUICIDES. , . J nyercargill, February 14,'; The police havo been advised that Afartin Corcoran, who recently acquired' the' license • of the Ballarat . Hotel at Arrqwioiyn, cut his throat this morning. : Auckland, February 14. An named Mate Boksich, _about thirty-five years old, was found dead in the jjUbert. Park this, morning. Ho hud apparently committed suioide, a leather belt being found drawn tightly' around his neck and hkiging from a branch of: a tree. ' FALL FROM A BUILDING. . Auckland, February 14. ;j A labourer namfcd Charles' Rasmussen, aged sixty, fell from a building .in> course, of erection in the city'this afternoon, and, broke Loth legs. •: ', . DUNEDIN FATALITIES ' ; Dunedin, February 14. ■William Roche, -twenty-five years of age, who had been employed as cook'at tho Glasgow. Restaurant, died suddenly -in, bed yes-, terday. ■ Roche . retired to bed at about 10. o'clock tho previous night, and .at 5,15 next morning was found ill what seemed'to be, a fit. Restorative aid was given and medical assistaiico summoned, but life was extinct; Deceased is said to have, a brother on thi) steamer Kaikoura. ■ ; Constable Graham, Stationed at Outram, died suddenly last evening. 110 complained iof pains about the heart and chest the previous day, and had received medical attention. Deceased was appointed to.tho forco.iri 1875, and was stationed at Ngapara (North Otago) for. several years. .. | . THE NELSON COACH ACCIDENT. Nelson, February 14. ■ Tho,inquest on tli6' Appleby Coach ,way fatality on February 1 was. resumed today, when tho Railway Department, Newman Bros, (coach proprietors), Charles' Brickland (coach driver), and relatives of Miss Fittall (one of tho injured passengers) wero represented by counsel. Evidence was given by tho railway officials, who stated that they saw the coach approaching the line, and concluded that tho driver had seen the train. Immediately a collision seemed likely the brakes were applied. Other witnesses stated that tho crossing was an opon one, with nothing to impede the view from tho bos of a coach. ' :i ■ " . The inquest was. adjourned until. to-mor-row, and a further adjournment will probably bo necessary to, secure the evidence of Brickland, who will bo unable to appear for some weeks. - ' " FATAL FALL FROM A LADDER. Dunedin, February 14. ; Charles Trusler, injured at Wairuna yestorday by falling off a laader, died in Duniedin Hospital to-day. \ TRAIN RUNS INTO A COTV. Yesterday's mail train for the north on the Manawatu line ran into a oow a short distance beyond Manakau station. The front, bogie wheels of the engine left the rails, but were replaced without injury, and tho train reached Palmerston North half an hour lato.