ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 989, 2 December 1910, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

* : ENTANGLED WITH A FLY-WHEEL. WELL-KNOAVN CITIZEN KILLED. ' (By Tclegrapk—Press Association.) '. Invercargill, December 1. i George Thomas Smyth, a well-known resident of Invercargill, manager of the ( (southland Brond Company, was acci- , dentally killed at 0.30 to-doy. Deceased , was stock-taking, and whilst the engine- ( room men were employed in' the bakehouse, they noticed .that the. machinery, driven by a gr.ss-enginp, was slowing, up. ( On going into the engine-room, they 1 found deceased lying on tho iloor witn i his head between the spokes of the flywheel of the engine. He had apparently slipped and fell with his head through the flywheel. He was quite dead. c Deceased wa.s prominent in the itnsonic ( body (New Zealand constitution), and was one time Provincial Grand fllaster ( and Grand Superintendent for Southland 1 in the Grand Lodge. He leaves a widow 1 and family of four, whose ages rango \ from eighteen to three years. A THROWN OUT OF A TRAP. 1 Timaru, December 1. \ At. noon to-day a young, man named t J. A. luiowles, employed in Dnlgaty's stock department, was thrown out'of a trap near Saltwater Creek, and killed. OLD MAN TAKES HTS LIFE. r . Christchurch, December 1. t An old man named John Thomas Gard- S ner committed suicide by hanging him- V self at Lytteltou this mornim;. Ho was 1 an old age pensioner, about '70 years of age, and was well known in Lyttelton, r where ho worked as a carpenter. Ho [, lived by himself in a little cottage, and, 1' when the milk-boy called this morning r he received no answer. On opening the fi door, he was startled by seeing.the body J ot tho old man hanging by a rope. J SUICIDE AT AUCKLAND. S Auckland, December 1. If George Stewart O'Hnllornn, aged 65 years I of age, committed suicide by cutting his cl throat at his home in Parnell this after- si noon. No reason is assigned.for the deed 'A beyond the fact that he: had been out ti of sorts for the last'few days. Ho leaves w a wife, son, and thtes daughters, h