ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1031, 21 January 1911, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

. FATAL DOSE OF. STRYCHNINE. (By Telegraph-Press. Association.) ■ _ .Wangar.ui, January 20. 'William Bramfor'd, ; aged 33, night watchman at 'the Wanganui' Railwaj Station, died ''this--morning -from the ■ effects of- : a r dose of- .strychnine. "It appeal's"'that,. after working'all night; he ' returned ''liomo'-'m /the .early rooming, and worked abouttlio houso'for a -couplq of""lfours. 'His : sister-in-law thea iiijard'-him fall in'his' bedroom,' and subsequently found' him' on' the floor. Ha held out his hands and 1 said good-bye to her." She told a neighbour who'waa called 'in that ■he had' taken strychnine. He died before medical aid'could reach him. No reason is' known-for-the act.: WISHED TO DIE. .* .. Auckland, January 20. ' .'An old woman, named Eliza Thomas, ■ '79 years of age, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid, at her residence at WakefieldStreet, • to-day: Deceased lia'd been ailing for some time, , and was nearly; blind.' She .had often-expressed a : wish'.to die. . ... , .. ■';• 'FOUND DEAD:'' Rcsfton, January 20. An old resident, James Moore Crush* ington, .was found dead on the. Mania' Road last' night. Ho'was' riding out to work, and it .is supposed he fell off aiitl was kicked.' ■ ...