ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 483, 16 April 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

EAILWAY fATALItTt.' ; WELLINGTON RESIDENTRUN/OVER.. A railway accident, .which bud a fatal re* suit, occurred at Paraparaumu yesterday morning,'when, the Now Plymouth express, Which does .not halt at Pttrapafaumu, was steaming past the Station; It lippe-irs that &n eld Wellington feottlor, Mr. Jocoph Than , ' ley) was seen by the tablet porter to go . down before the engine- ht the north croeS" ing. By .the time the train was pulled up tho body Was right Underneath the cars, and when it wafc recovered death had ois» purred. ; V.-. .•'■ •.•• ■ ' ; ' •■\ i ",: /■"■■ .'."" Mr. Thawtey, who Was Well known, in Wei' . hngtoii,' wfls G7 years'of ago. He.Was forinerly connected with the. firm 6f Thawloy Bros., grocers, Culn Street (his sons still being in business here), but for some time past had been' resident at l'ai ; opara,uuiu. He resided: in Wt>lHvi«t*u : fot ft 'quarter of a eentitry. Deceased , loaves a widow and five children. For a elwrt time past ho had been suffering, frouVinflupimd. According to : a resident of Paraparauniu who was in the city yesterday .nffori)omY,iluoeaßed./Was seen. running towards .the .crossing. when the traili was aOpit)achingi,!(ind was warned that the train was doming. Ho stopped whqh near bliG engliiei and then.'Appeared to make a ' live as though to «r6s3 tho lino ahead of the'train or to get-in , front of it., ; An . inquest was . arranged for - yesterday afternoon. ■• ; ;;; -.■■;' -j .■ ; ;.'•:.'. '■'■■' a pATft..; C :; A littlo boy Uatned Alexander MfcdieV. two years ef' age, residing With bin pttfehtß ■at Khahdallah, slipped Whilst walking ; nlolig ft fodtpßthyestefday and breko Ms thigh. He was;admitted to tho hospitulVeßtei'tfaj' . ovenmg. :■■'■.•■•■ -.-■■ ■.■ -' ' •';. ' . •. ' . : ■ ■, ,^..;..-■;\^tti6toE^i*/;isrAi»tKtt»-.■;'-'- : ; . " IW , BoiiiiksMimlilWf-t 1 . r ; v ' NaiJlWf AOrillG/ Mr. .Cl&ud Cfttoj Whose suicide Cfedted ft sensation, in town j-esterday, was one of a well-known Napier totally. He had a dis--1 tinguished' bareer at 'tlio Napier High i Sohool,: having been-: the firbt 1 dux ill '1877, andjl|c inahitftined the position ill eacinof the two following i'oifsi Ho jojnpd the* staff of tile Colonial Bailk. in Napief, and was b afterwai'tls in the sefvice of tlie Baltic of ■ Now Zealand. . Subsequently he. elitei'ed hito . an-aocmilitartp} , . and llieurnnce agoiloy bttsiness. At an inquest hold oh' tho body' tin's mornina So rcnSon could be.. asßignod for the fa-sli act; althovmh one witness stated ' that the - revolver witli which the fhtnl act i Was comniittcd ; iyas .boiiglit by deceased . thrco weeks ago'. Ho then stated that he J was buying the weapon to givo as a present 1 toa friend who was going to South Africa. '■ Among the effects ftmiul on : the body was a telcgflfti Ulgllc,!! , ' "CooltSj" 'Aucltland, . which stated,}" Bank (Wires your cheque not ' provided for. Reply." Tile Coroner, Mr. • H. V/. Bl'abant) returned the following verdict: ; "That the deceased died ffohi the effects of , a bullet wound inflicted by hini- ! 6elii" - .•■' ■. '~. .'■ ',;■■■,'. ...; :.: ■;:■:. , .': BENZINE FUMES ON: A LAUNCH, ' - . (UV T(!LlsailAl , h'^MtK39/»sSoolAi'M)Ni) 5 • ■: ..'•' thßltloa, April 16; : ; William Hoitl, ageiV fcighte«n,•; Met his j death ih a strange maiitier. last iitglit, ; \Vith \ s&mb:, friends 'he: was • out oiv the HaUraki - Gulf.'on-ft.'fishing cxoursiwi, • Oil the-return t Voyago no Went to bed in a eflbin, appai'olitlv ■ beilig ill the best of health. , - When the launch - arrived fit the Thames, lleid was-found dead. ■ A doctor.fittlled in expressed the 1 Opinion that B death .had.been ; caused .' by. inhalation of '. benzine-fumes.... -~ . ■" . ' ■-•■Another passenger said ho felt ill, andlio believed it to be from tile same cause, lleid niot with o slight bicycle eeeident yesterday, but'it.is hot btjlibved that this had auythiiig to do his death: ':■.'; ...;■ , A PEA-RIFLE IPATAfilfl', .. ] ; ; . ,' , - i ;-.' : ..-", Hokltllta, April IS.- ! A sod shooting affair took nlaco e*rly this . niortiliig. resulting; in tho death, of Mr, llobert M'Mllltin, Jjoioiiali It, appears that deceased Wont -into ■his yard to • shoot a cat, and tt ' few' minutce later wae } folilld iti a atato of collapse, the peaTiflo l - having gone off accidentally, r and a pellet . entering his breast. Hβ died half an Hour 5 later. Deceased lSiivea a widow and family 9 of nine.. ■ ... •~. ■ ■■; . ' i OLD AGE PENSIONER KILLED. - -, . ' v ... ,■ -: AufiklanU, April 15., I The. ( man;kilted by oollisioK with a wain--1 last night had in his pocket an Old ago f pension eortifleato in the imino of Murdoch i M'Leodi His ago was about seventy. '. t ..;.-■ dEAtH-proji heart disease. 3 rti. h ' - iHvecoarglli, April 14, • JilM Swanson, alwtlt G6 years of age, died f suddenly at tho hoUso. of lMaiy Jones last . night. The latter wont to bed at half-nast , Seven, and oh Hslllg- this irtorning found . Swanson lying, dead on the kitehon floor, i Heart disease is supposed to have been tho i cause ot. death.- ■ ; '-~.: .. ', ;■ . .':■. ',:'. ;. PTOMAINES. ' .■'•": '■■■■-■■■',• OlSborrto, April 14. live occupants of oiio of the local hotuls are suffering from ptonmllle Hoisonitig, supposed to bo due to eating tinned peaches ■ They were confinod to bed yest-erday, but are now improving.. ■ ...' . . ; Ikijh FIIOM. A ROOB , . ' ; . Auckland, April 14. i A niiili tiamod Harry Dudley died in the ambiilniido this -afternoon on. tho Way to tho _ hospitnl, 'Iho deceiifie.l Was a piilntoiv working on a building at tins Chelsefl Sugar Workk, hiul tile .injury 'from which li t s died W. 19 a fractured: skull, causwlhy it frtll froi,, the roof of -the building. Tho deceased Was holding up a sheet of romifitited iron when I on the ffittf, and tho wind strikiilg it, caused Mini to (iVwbalaiico and fall.. Dudley Wits ; n married man, and rt-as ai'fesidont of Pon- . soiiby.. .... - ■:.'>-.-