ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 214, 3 June 1908, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

THE ELLERSLIE SUICIDE. (DV TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOOUTION.)' • . < Auckland, Juno 2. ' Mr. Rees Williams, who committed suicide by jumping off the train at Ellerslio' last evening, according to a certificate found on tho body, was admitted to tho Normal School at Christchurch in January, 1891,' and passed a course of one year's training for teaching. «• There was also in his pocket a letter" from ■ the secretary of the North Canterbury Board ; of Education. ' , ' . : ' The pointsman'at Ellerslio; stated at, the inquest that he saw Williams,. who was on the platform as the train was passing, rush tothe edge, of the. platform'; Witness seized Williams's coat, ana a struggle ensued. Tho' coat coming off, Williams fell under the engino and .tie tender passed, over him. : '<' The jury returned a verdict of, suicide whilst temporarily insane. , .. ' BLACKSMITH'S TRAGIC DEATH. ■ ■ Oamaru, June 2.... Yesterday John Nicholson, of. Maheno, blacksmith and wheelwright, wa» found in a , dying state in a shed near his house. Blood was issuing from his mouth, and a breechloader was lying bosido him. He died this morning. Deceased was sixty years of' age. : Somo time ago he was confined in a mental home/ and since he regained his liberty he / had been in a despondent state. There ia .' little doubt the case is one of suicide. j / FATALLY CRUSHED. ' Dunedln, June. 2. • A man named > Geo, Wright, labourer, 50 years of age, who resided at Green Island, was killed to-day by having his head crushed between a truck and a dirt tip'at Mosgiol. ; ' ACCIDENTAL DEATH. Christchurch,, June, 2. John Arthur Francis Peel, a draper, , who was admitted to the hospital on' Monday afternoon suffering from injuries sustained in an accident through a horse bolting, died in tho institution early this morning. . Ail inquest was held later in the'day, when a . verdict of accidental death was returned. ■ A boy named Wm. Smith, ten years of age, son of Mr. Wm. Smith, of Palmerston North, was admitted to the Hospital yesterday suffering from concussion of the brain. The boy,'who was staying with bis uncle, Mr. Goo. Smith, of Todman Street, Brooklyn, - went into a stable near his house yesterday , morning, and was seen walking■ about by '■ two stablemen as they went outside for a , few minutes. On returning they found tha boy on the floor in an unconscious condition, having apparently been kicked on the head by ' ono of the horses. He "was attended to by Dr. Cousins and removed to the. Hospital, where an operation had to be performed. The boy was progressing as well as could be expected at a late hour last night. 1 . , .1- ! '