ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 241, 4 July 1908, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(BY TELEGBAriI'—PRES3 ASSOCIATION!) , ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. \ ' Dunedin, July! 3!'

: A voung man working on a farm at-'West Taien' got drufit on June 12,; tind iwas so' filled with -remorse'and fear "of'meeting his Employer on-the latter's return.that h.e at--; tempt-ed to commit suicide: ' Tho man was brought .before the Police Court to-day; and ordered to^come up for. sentence when called upon, conditionally on .his; taking out a prohibition' order* against hims'ejf and paying half, the'cost entailed by. his-action, viz., £15. .. • 'DEATH FROM EXPOSURE. Dannsvirkc, July 3. '■ „ At 1.30 o'clock .this -morning the' nightwatchman found a man named James Gibson, aged ..fifty-two', l years', lying .on the .pavement in front of-.,the-- Junction Hotel, apparently, in-a dyingjcondition. • Mcdical ; aid was, at once summoned, man .was.remo.ved : to'.the,-hospital, ..wlioro lie diefl ,at. 6.20., a.m. /Deceased, had,been, a resident of .the. district foiv-oyer.'-twentv'^years, 1 following ; the f ayoca-. tion of : ploughman,, and liorsepwner.' lie had been in town for a few days, and, waa' known to have; been drinking, Death was due to exposure. '

FATAL FALL' PROM A TRAP. " -..-, ; V' Timaru,: July 3. An inquest on the bodv of J. Robertson, 'farmer, 1 .'was,' Held..'at Geraiuine this.afternoon. The evidence showed that the body was. found on the-Hilton Road, a.-horse and trap being some distance' away. . The jury returned a verdict that ;tho qauseVof.; death was disjoca-. tion of tlio neck, caused'by a fall out of tho trap. The doctor/ who'.made a post-mortem, said ho found a fracture and dislocation of the bones of the neck. =; There was no sign of fracture, of the, skull.. No one. was able to, ehow how a \rug camp, to be over. the body. The ;doct6r said-, deceased, himself could not have drawn, the rug over,• •and. the Coroner remarked -ttiai*this-was ono .point not made oloar'at tlio,-inquest 1 / ■:

.. '.A'. distressing' :accident is reported to; hav« occurred iin the :TTutt 'district on Thursday. ' A young' lady , named Miss Alice Hansen, of Alicotown, ; ' who v/as. ou a; visit_ to her sister' .'• Mrs. . James Wilson •at WJiiteman's'.Valley,, whilst' standing', on the : side of arathor stoop hill .slipped, and,, . to' save, herself,.'grasped; a galvanised wire that :was\ stretched from .the top to the bottom of .theUiill, and ; which.-is used for the conveyance of firewood. Unablo to stop her*, self- sho- descended -tho -wire;-rapidly for a distance,'of about 500 ft., passing, in her descent; through'a clump of bush and over a , creek. Sho fortunately'escaped being dashed into -a ''stack of .firewood by throwing herself . off' tho:.'wire, wh^,'about' 20ftV from :the ground. Both her. ' hands , were cut "to-t*ie bono, and besides being considerably bruised, she is suffering from shook. ...