ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10511, 15 February 1928, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

HANDY-MAN SUICIDES (Press Association.) PUKEKOHE, Feb. 14. -David Hunter, a handy-man employed at Wesley College, was found dead with a bullet wound in his head and a pea rifle besides the body. FARMER SHOOTS HIMSELF DEAD. WIFE NARROWLY ESCAPES BEING ' MURDERED. fPress Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. Feb. I I. Henry AVashbourue, 30, it larmer, shot himself dead at Selwyn last evening. Previously lie had entered bis wife’s bedroom and fired a gun at her as she lay in bed, but the shot missed and entered the "all. AA'ashbounie is said In have suffered from depression. He had been separated from Ins wile, lor sonic, time, but (hey were reconciled two months ago. ’I here are lour ehildien one a baby. Airs Wasliboiirue is 2« years of ago. KNOCKED DOAVN BY RAILWAY TRUCK. ELECT RICA!} WORKER; SERIOUSLY INJURED. iPvoBH Asuoi'i.iTionJ WELLINGTON, Feb. 14. While walking Mon:; the railway line towards Thorndon station this iiHernooii, Ernest Seller, ol Gueoii Street, Upper llutt., who is employed in the railway electrical gang, IVtono, was knocked down by a truck and severely injured. Seller was going to the* station to catch a tram to his home, "'hen lie heard the whistle of a train doing shunting work. Thinking it was the line on which he was walking lie jumped over on to the next set of lines, only to be knocked down by a passing truck, one of the wheels of which passed over his right thigh, practically severing the leg. Medical aid was sought, and the injured man was taken bv the free ambulance to the hospital! His condition is serious. DEATH UNDER. ANAESTHETIC CHRISTCHURCH. Feb. 11. Joseph Allen. -IS, died under an anaesthetic, at the hospital to-day. Allen was. a retired farmer. Ail inquest will he held to-morrow. •Who- pa vs the bill for the injured worker? Consult the Standard Insurance Company’ for full protection. —C. G. Bloore. chief agent; A. G. Seddon, local manager.—(Advt.).