ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9574, 27 July 1923, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

CONSTABLE’S LEG BROKEN. SCUFFLE IN TE AROHA. INCIDENT IN MAIN STREET. TE AROHA, July 24. A sensation was* caused in the mean street of 1c Aroha this afternoon when a scuffle took place between Constable A 3 orison and a pedestrian. It is stated that the constable spoke to the man, when he was attacked violently. The constable was thrown and his right leg was broken, lie was conveyed to the police station. where the injured limb was dressed. As there is no other constable on duty in To Aroha, no arrest lias yet been made. Ac constable was summoned from Paoruu, and in due course arrested his man, who gave considerable trouble, necessitating the assistance of a number of spectators.

SHAREBROKER SUICIDES. DUNEDIN, July 26. Hugh Mitchell,, a sharebroker and accountant and secretary of the Otago branch of the Farmers’ Union, committed suicide this morning by hanging in the cellar of his residence. He was aged 51 years. Deceased had a Plica red to he worried lately and sleepless. FOUND DEAD WITH THROAT CUT. WELLINGTON, July 25. Alfred McDonald, 48, residing at Hataitai, was found in a bathroom with his throat cut. He was dead when discovered. He had been suffering from insomnia and had not slept for several nights. ■. It is believed continued insomnia caused temporary insanity.—P.A. SUICIDE WHILE DEPRESSED.

DUNEDIN. July 26. At the inquest held on the body, of Mitchell, an accountant, found hanging at his residence at Roslyn this morning, a verdict of suicide while in a depressed state of mind was returned. His brother gave evidence and said he believed there was something in the suggestion of worry due to lack of sleep due in a measure to the fact that deceased was depressed owing to making false income returns.—P.A.

MAN FALLS BENEATH TRAIN. CHRISTCHURCH, July 26. A middle-aged Chinaman named Wing Lee, a laundry proprietor, who was seeing friends off at the station to-night, "stepped from the steamer tram as it was drawing out and fell, rolling beneath the train. One of the carriage wheels passed over his left leg, further injury being prevented by the prompt stoppage of the train. Drs. Crawshaw and Crcoke, who were on the station, attended to the sufferer. who was then conveyed, to the hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate the limb.