TRAGEDIES & MISHAPS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 January 1930, Page 3

TRAGEDIES & MISHAPS

TWO CYCLISTS KILLED. (Per Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., January 19. a A double tragedy occurred about - 7.20 on Saturday evening at the junc- , tion of No. 4 line and the Rangitikei - line, four miles from Palmerston i. North, when Hector Clarence Egglei ton (28), and the rider of a light motor cycle, with Bertram Cecil Hazlehurst - (aged 31), on the pillion, both resi- - dents of Bunnythorpe, were killed out ‘ right when their machine was struck I' broadside on by a heavy car, driven by Bache Right Harvey, of Waver ley, a farmer, who had Arthur Ernest Roy Joblin, school teacher, of Palmerston, , as a passenger. The victims were riding home after

haymaking work, and they were in the middle of the intersection when the car met them, carrying them about a chain. Both men sustained head injuries which were instantly fatal. MILL HAND COMMITS SUICIDE. ASHBURTON, January 18. J. Reidy, aged about 45 years, committed suicide by hanging in a threshing mill whare at Hinds this morning. Ho was found by Mr L. Chisnail, on whose farm the mill ■was operating, about 10.30 this morning. The body was still warm. Reidy was employed as a forker on W. F. Tilson’s mill. FOUND DEAD. CHRISTCHURCH, January 19. Harry Louis Bourk, aged 46, an exseaman, was found dead in bed at a boarding house at Addington, presumably from natural causes. His mother is said to reside in Auckland.

CAUGHT IN MACHINERY. HASTINGS, January 18. William Templin, an employee of the Oppenheimer Casing Company, was caught in the machinery and injured in the lower part of his body. He is progressing satisfactorily in the Napier Hospital. SHOOTING TRAGEDY. OAMARU. January 17. Albert Kelland, aged 21, when cleaning a rifle yesterday on his father's estate at Omarama, accidentally shot himself in the head. A doctor reached the remote estate within two hours, but the patient died before his arrival. FRACTURED SKULL. DUNEDIN, January 20. Leo Brian was admitted to the Hospital on Saturday with a severe fracture of the skull received 'when thrown from a motor cycle. The injured man, who resided at Momoma, was picked up on the East Taieri Road. He has not regained consciousness. FOUND DROWNED. WAIMATE, January 17. At the inquest into the death of John Joseph Campbell, who resided at Studholme Junction, a verdict was returned that he met his death by drowning. The evidence went to show that he had been drinking heavily and tied his hands together and plunged into the creek 1 with the object of taking his life. OLD INJURY PROVES FATAL. CHRISTCHURCH, January 19. Ray Cheat, who underwent an operation in October for the removal of a in tim iipnrb died in the hos-

bullet in tne neaci, umu luu pital. Early in 1920 he was wounded by an accidental discharge of a revolver, but it was not till three years ago that the injury gave trouble, and the bullet, which was thought to have grazed his scalp, was discovered. PATIENT’S SUICIDE HAMILTON, January 20. Farmer Abraham Firth Wilcock, 70, Tekowhai, was found drowned in shallow water at the edge of the Hamilton Lake on Sunday morning. He was missed from a private hospital a few hours previously,. ’When found he was wearing night attire. At the inquest before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., a verdict of suicide from drowning was returned. DEATH IN DITCH. INVERCARGILL, January 18. At the inquest on Patrick Francis Mulligan, an old man who was discovered dead in a ditch at Tuatapere, the Coroner returned a verdict that deceased met his death at Tuatapere from exposure, the result of misadventure. Witnesses gave evidence as to finding the body in a hole in the ditch. Tho holo was about four or five feet deep, three feet wide, and the upper part of the body was well above water which was falling on the lower parts. Deceased appeared to have settled down in (ho hole, which would bo difficult to get out of in his feeble state.