ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2661, 5 January 1916, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

OLD MAN COMMITS SOJCIDE. Archibald Stewart, aged 60, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. A BOY KILLED. William Crump, n boy aged 3J years, was thrown from a trap and hilled at Matawai. SHOT DEAD WITH A PEA-RIFLE. Eltham, January i.' Joseph John Robertson, aged two years and eleven months, was shot dead with a pea-rifle at Stewart Road this morning by a young companion, aged eight, who was a visitor from Auckland. From what is learned, tho rifle was left in a shed over night with a bullet in, the riflo being of an oldfashioned type, from which the bullet cannot be extracted. Childish curiosity prompted tho eight-year-old boy to examine the weapon, with the aforesaid painful circumstances. An inquest will do held to-morrow. SOLDIER BADI.Y CRUSHED BY A TRAIN. . Carterton, January 4. An accident occurred at Featherston Railway Station this morning. As a troop train drew in at 1.20 a.m. a young man, Private Power, of E Company, 10th Reinforcements, slipped and fell between the platform and the train. Ho was seriously crushed, and was removed to Greytown Hospital, where ho lies in a precarious condition. . "