ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 152, 27 December 1899, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

THE CROOKSTON TRAGEDY. IT PROVES TO BE AN ACCIDENT. The Commissioner of Police has received a telegram stating that further enquiries into the circumstances connected with the supposed murder of a girl named Haugh at Crookston in the Tuapeka district show she w as accidentally shot while handling a loaded rifle which was lying on her brother's bed. She had been sent to tidy the ixjom, and was removing the gun from the bed when it went otf. The bullet went through, her heart in an upward direction, and was found embedded in the ceiling. The Railway Department has been advised that the wife of Mr. D. Wilson, the stationmaster at Ormondville, was drowned yesterday while bathing in a river close to her own home.

[U» TELEGRAPH— OWN CORRESPONDENT ". GREYTOWN NORTH. This Day. A serious cycling accident occurred here last evening. Mr. Wilkinson, of the Petone Woollen Mill warehouse, was riding hard to catch the outgoing train. Coming down the incline at Karatawhiti the front fork of his machine smashed. Wilkinson was picked up by Messrs. Fred Hawke and Copeland in an unconscious condition. He was badly smashed about the face and body.* and was still unconscious. On examination the doctors found severe concussion of the brain. A brake accident happened at Bidw'ill's cutting yesterday. A two-horse brake loaded with passengers for tho races was overturned and the occupants thrown out and badly cut about and bruised. The horses ana vehicle were stopped near Martinborough, practically uninjured. Messrs. W. Armstrong and J. O. Hayward, when driving from Martinborough last night, were run into by a trap and thrown out and stunned. They were left for three hours before help came. Armstrong'sright shoulder is injured, and he is confined to bed. Hayward escaped with bruises. [BY TELEGRAPH — rRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, This Day. At the inquest on the body of Jane Haugh, of Crookston, who was killed on Saturday by tbe discharge of a gun while she was making her brother's bed, a verdict was returned of Accidental Death. The jury, who were the first to draw fees uuder the Act of last session, donated the same to the patriotio fund. WANGANUI, This Day. Mr. Peter I). .Hogg, a well-known resident of Wanganui, was found dead this morning inside the door of his residence. It appears thaji deceased entered the house last evening without a light and fell against a table, striking the back of his bend and rapturing a blood-vessel. His wife and family were away on a holiday visit. Deceased was 40 years of age, and was formerly a Borough Councillor.