ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2114, 3 April 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FALL FROM TRAIN. THE BODY ON THE HUTT LINE. An inquest was hold by Mr, D. (*. A. Cooper, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon concerning tho death cf James Borland,, whoso body was foiuid on tho railway liii© near tlio Ngahaurailga station, oil Tuesday evening. Seniortßfirgoaiit Mulhuiev represented tho police, and Mr. A. \Y. llutehings the Hallway Department. Wjh. Arnold Uaulter, bootmaker, stai~ fid that deceased was his stepfather. Ho had identified tho, body at tho morgue. Witness last saw liira alive on. Monday evening. Deceased was about 43 years «f ago. In witness's opinion deceased may have stepped on to- the platform of a train and fallen out through an open gate, William Jamos Hogg, engine-driver, was tho next witness. J-Io said that on Tuesday last ho was engine-driver on a train that loft Lanibton Station for Lower Hutt at 6.35 p.m. Just after passing tho : h.oao signal at Ngaliauraliga tho fireniau -drew his attention to a near tho truck- Ho stopped tho train at tho station, and, running hack, found ,doce.ased, who was thou dead. After describing tho injuries, witness went on to say that his train had been preceded by the- 6.20 train to the Hutt, and tho probability was that tho body would have bfieii seen by anyone on that train. To Mr, Ifutchings: Tho body, was on the left sido of the track, and it ■was i not probable that decoascd was struck; by the engines of cither of tlio trains which ho had mentioned. Judging from tho position of. tho body it v.'as witBess's opinion that doceased had fa-1108 from the left-hand sido of a- train. Henry Frank Marshall stated that lio was chief guard oa tho 6.14 p.m. train from Lambton Station. Ho saw nothing unusual during tho journey. It wotiid be dark when his train; passed tho ppot where tho body ttas found. It would, however, Jib quite possible- for a passenger to fall off iho train-without Jiis'noticing it- , „ To Mr. rintehings: All tho platform gates wgto shut when iho train left Laiuliloii Station. Tho left-hand gates would Hot bo used again unless ar.y per- : son'got on tho train at the wrong side ao kaiwarra, and this was extreiccly iisproba-Mc; . llobert DnsavW. signalm-an at i\ga-] hauranga-, dess-rtbed iinding tho body. John lsbister, pol-ioo constable, i also j gave.evrdoiica. ! A. W. Hutfihings, statiomnasief at Lambton, stated t-liat tho laihray ticket found in deceased's jiocket had been issued at I'otono on Tuesday last at 3.4 p.m. Witness's opifiion was that deceased must JiiiVe fallen oil tho outward bound train. This was borao out by tlio positioii in ffhwli deceaseds body was iotuKl. , i A verdict was returned that- deccssod met his death as the. result of falling oif a.'train that left Lamhtori Station at 6.15 p*rti» No hlatno was attachable te tho Iltelway Department. "UPPER HUXT THAGEDY. inquest on tho victims of tlio Upper Hutt tragedy opens at tho Lpper Hutt Ckwrthouso at .10.30 this worniijcr Mr. AV. G. KidtlßHj s'wo of tha injured in conjiEction with tho Upper llu?t disaster. Mr. Jafties Hagtiii and Mr.' V. M'Govcfn, were mpojrted to he progressing favourably at tho Hospital last night.

SEVERE SHAKING. ■ Duncan Anderson, a \tidowei*, 5(5 v&iu\s of age, .residing -at- .Taitville, was admitted to tho Hospital at 10.45 o'clock Inst evening. From what could, lie gathered, Mr. Anderson, who is 1 msnagdr far tho Ce.vlon. Tea Company, .63 Dixon Street, was proceeding to Ins some, and when in the vicinity &r t-u& reservoir $t Taitvillo he fell over sen embankment-, with, the result that he re- ■ eoiyed a biid shaking. BEXIM FARMER'S STJICIDF,. (j>y Telegraph.- Press Association.) Christchuroh, April 2. ■ Residents of Oxford were shocked last ■ evening on learning that Robert J as, Gilchrist,, a well-known farmer Irving sit Bexl.ev, had committed snicido by shoot* log hiiiisolf. Gilchrist was abiDiit years of age and uhnrarried. Ho lived alone on lii-s f&rift« As one of the Ground ConuniUeo cf the Oxford A. and l. Association on Tuesday ho did teß ' sharo of' tho Walk in preparing the ground for the Oxford show, but. it Was notices! that he 'was riot in his usual bright state of mind. Surprise was felt at his non-appearance at the show. vesterday, and,' towards afternoon, some friends went out to his farm to ascertain tie reason, for his absence. There was no sign of him about tho house,. : arid o& enteritis, a party found a liato ■ on the table bearing'' Tuesday's date) and worded: "I am otf my bsftd- memory gone: sad end t.p life spoilt.,' The party iJiieu searched the- firm and it was 'not till darkness was setting in that the body was found in some manuka scrub on a distant part of the.farm : with, a gun-shot wound m the head and a. gun lying near.