ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 198, 15 May 1908, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[BT TELEGRAPH; —PRESS ASSOCIATION,] YOUNG WOMB'S STXICIDE. .v i' i Ashburton, May 14. j . A; young , majrielK. woman named Mrs, Heriot, wife of a Pnpanui resident,:employed in his father's store, committed suicide last night by-hanging herself to a trc-6 in the farm orchard of a. relative named Mr. 'J. .EvansJ whom-she • was visiting at Spreadeagle, sixteen miles, from . Ashburton. Deceased retired to bed as.usual last night, but later her absence was discovered through the cries, of her two young children. Several hours' search failed to reveal her whereabouts, but at daybreak the, body was.found, quite dead. ; No reason is assigned for .the deed. "■'. . - ' '.V ~' ; SHOOTING FATALITY. V ' ' ; ' Blenheim, May 14. A young married!; man, named . Owen M'Hale, a crack football half-back'arid a Marlborough corporation' > i was accidentally killed -at ' Riverlands while' out shooting; last evening. :He liad loalded his gun for swan; but lie had failed t-o' : get a shot, arid , was strapping the: weapon to: his bicycle when.:the charge exploded, lodging in the groiriV'^',''He u never - recoveredness and died' morning at 10.30: r : - AN INQUEST. V;-:.,:' >.y'.* Napier, May 14. ' At the inquest: at: "Mean6e ; :touching the death of 1 Jolin' Tracey,. an old resident. who died while staying for the night at a.neighbour's house, the;-jury: returned the following, verdict: —"That -; the deceased met his death from enlargement or fatty degeneration of the heart." A \OUNG MYN'S DEATH. i Dunedin,-May 14. The Clyde correspondent of, the "Daily Times" reports that a young ' man named James Schrick lQst'his life last, night while attempting. to ■ cross • tho \Molyneus in a chair. ' He missed his seat in the chair as it moved from the staging and hung on to the side of vthe box until ; over the centre ofvthfc - river,—where he retrained. About the time, his call for help'was heard he let go his hold and foil into tho river. He floated fori some. distance' and finally disappeared in a whirl-pool. abput ■ 200 yards from the scene of the accident. He was a native of Patearoa. : — SUDDEN DEATH. • r ' Dunedin, May 14. A man named John Alexander McMillan, aged about 40 years, died suddenly, this evening. Ho was; )vith three companions, enfgaged. in stocktaking in A. and . 1\? Burt's premises, and about 6.45, while the men .were having tea, he rose, walke dtwo steps, and : fell .backwards. When the doctor arrived life was extinct. Deceased loaves a wife and family. ■ A married man named Albert Ncilson, ;em-. ployed at the Kelburne Tramway Power .House, was found lying on the Karori Road near the tram terminus at 5.30. yesterday morniitg. / The man was in an; unconscious condition, and on. being examined ;by. Dr. Begg was pronounced to have sustained concussion! of the brain. The sufferer was removed to the Hospital. . Inquiry, made by Constable Mullooly showed that Neilson left" his home on a bicycle 'for work at 5 a.m. yesterday. Tho bicycle appeared to have skidded-on tho train, line and thrown.the rider. / '-, i ■ ' When' tho barque Pharos was about to put. to sea ; from. thq. wool ywharf, yesterday morning, preparatory, to sailing for.London, an ablo seaman named Robert Wild, seventeen years-of ago, who was making ready a sail on tho main yard, overbalaricedand fell to the,.deck, x a distance, of "about forty feet. Dr.' Pollen was called v to •! attend .the; man, and ordered Constable Flemniing to remove him to' tho hospital on finding that the injuries included a dislocated left shoulder and j a fracture of tho ( left] arm : -at the elbow. Wild, whoso parents resido in London, lias,a brother on board'the-Pharos. ... ..i ■...■■(