ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 213, 2 June 1908, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

DEATH FROM HEART FAILURE. <PY TBIJSQBAFU—FKKSS ASSOCIATION) m , " , ' Pahiatua, June 1. • The death of Mr. David Patchett, aged 56 occurred at his residence yesterday morning. His wife went to call him to go to church and found him sitting in a chair, quite dead! Deceased, who leaves a widow and five children,, all grown up, formerly • resided in Canterbury; and came to Pahiatua about seven years ago. For many years he took ■an activo interest m Wesleyanism, and was a circuit steward here, as well as secretary to the school committee. The cause of death was heart affection: HOOKEY PLAYER INJURED. '' T tr r, . . , Napier, Juno 1. Mr. J. H Cartwright, architect, broke a leg whilo playing hockey. MAN THROWS HIMSELF IN FRONT OF A TRAIN. . . ..., , . Auckland, June 1. ,A middle-aged man named Rees Williams whose identity has not yet been established threw himself in front of a swiftly-moving goods train at Ellerslio this evening and sustained fearful injuries, from which ho died in twenty minutes. ; A labourer .named John Sharp, residing at Tmakori Road, met with an accident whilst working on a truck on the wharf yesterday, receiving timber from the steamer Hampstead. A piece of timber hit Sharp on tho head, inflicting a scalp wound about two hnd a half inches long. He was attended by Dr. Honry and removed to his home. 1 ,