ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
♦ [BY TELEGRAPH — PBESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, Ist December. LAn old man named John Thomas Gardner committed 6uicide by hanging himself at Lyttelton this morning. He was an old age pensioner, about seventy years of age, and well-known in Lyttelton, where he worked ac a carpenter. Gardner was blind in one eye, and he had been troubled for some time by failing sight of the other. It is , considered that iear of. becoming totally* blind had preyed upon his mind. Thomas Mitchell, about 56 years of age, a commercial traveller from Auckland, j dropped dead in a tram on the way from Opawa to town this evening. He wae seen to fall backwards, and the tram went back to Opawa for medical assistance, but it was found that Mitchell wae dead. AUCKLAND, Ist December. George Stewart O'Halloran aged sixtyfive years of age, committed suicide by cutting his throat at his home in Parnell this afternoon. No reason is assigned for the" deed beyond the fact that he had been "out of sorte" during the last few days. He leaves a widow, a son and three daughters, one of whom is married.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 133, 2 December 1910, Page 7
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