ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

o> [BT TELEGK AriI.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIX, 3rd February. The man drowned in the harbour yesterday has been identified as George Farquharson, a farmer, belonging to Signal Hill. At the inquest the medical evidence was to the effect that death was probably duo to shock caused by sudden immersion. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with tho medical testi-j mony, and added a I'ider that steps should be taken to prevent .access to tho wharf at night, except through gate; under the control of the nightwatchman. Ths body of a man named Joseph Robson, a groom, > out of work, was found almost decapitated besido the railway, sixty chains south of Ravensbourne station this afternoon. Two passengers by tho north express state that they saw deceased throw himself between the carriages from the se-cond-class carriage platform. Deceased, a day or two ago, gave himself up to the police, requesting to be locked up, as li 6 was destitute, and unable to obtain employment. Ho was charged with vagrancy at tho Police Court this morning, and was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. He left the coiut with Mr. dimming, of tho Patients and Prisoners' Aid Society. A second-class ticket for Oamaru and a shilling, given him by Mr. dimming, were all that were found in the pockets of tho deceased. INVERCARGILL, 3rd February. Charles fvttopp, nineteen ytavs of age, an attendant at Wirth's Circus, had a Toot injured to-day by a truck passing ovei it Hp is now !n tho hospital \YHAXGAREl M 3id Fcbruaiy. ! A Maori named Georgi Pu was' in. siantly killed by n log rolling ovoi him at MaUpouri on Saturday, owinp to a I jack jklLs^iufi. J