ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19004, 28 July 1925, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

INJURED MAN’S ORDEAL. A middle-aged man named William Lindegar, engaged in opossum hunting at Lake Waikaremoaua, was crossing a swam]) when Iris horse fell and he was badly crushed about the upper portion of tho body (says a Wairoa message). Ho lay from Saturday until Sundw afternoon before being discovered. Ha was carried eight miles over rough hush country on Sunday night to the powerhouse, and was brought by car to _tha 'Wairoa Hospital in an unconscious state yesterday. FARMER'S SUICIDE. William Hartnell, aged 54 years, a farmer at Hororata (Canterbury), hanged himself on Saturday. IN THE HARBOR. The body of a man was found floating in Lylti:«V)ii Harbor yesterday afternoon. Deceased was apparently 40 years of age, with reddish hair and moustache. On each forearm was the tattooed figure of a woman encircled by a serpent. CRUSHED BY LOG. Augustus Quinn (58), a well-known Jkainatua resident, was killed yesterday 1 afternoon at Hukarere. He was working with four others jacking a log into a wagon, when one big jack gave way, the log rolling back upon Quinn’s head, which was crushed between it and a lower log. Quinn stood up and then dropped dead. Deceased was one of the original vendors to tho Millorton Gold Alining Syndicate. FELL ON BACK. Allan Baskett, aged fourteen years, was taken to the hospital shortly before 5 p.m. yesterday suffering from injuries to his back. The lad, who lives with Ids parents at Nw>.2 Short street, fell from a loft at Messrs W. Wright and Co.’s bakery premises in King street.