ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10843, 12 March 1929, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

CHINESE FOUND HANGED

(Prose Association.'

DUNEDIN, March 11. A Chinese, All Tong, 77, who had been an- inmate of a benevolent institute for several years, was found dead hanging jn a wool.shed at the home yesterday morning.

. CYCLIST’S FATAL FALL. (Press Association.) HAMILTON, March 11. John Valentine Lerke, 18, a clerk, died in Hamilton Hospital yesterday afternoon, having been thrown from a bicycle in the forenoon and sustaining a fractured skull. Lerke attended a service at the Catholic Church, rode down the hill towards the river, and fell while attempting to turn. He was taken home, the seriousness of his injury not being known till the afternoon.

. TEACHER’S TRAGIC END. FOLLOWS EXPERIMENT WITH POISON. (Press Association.) CARTERTON, March 11.

Claude Hector Olsen, first assistant at Carterton District High School, and acting-headmaster' since the beginning ot the term, was found dead in the science room on Saturday morning. He had been ex]K lamenting with cyanide of potassium.- He left a. note saying: “Took n drink; thought it was water; must have been ,” The letter then trailed oil.

A post mortem examination was Judd an an inquest opened yesterdav and adjourned for the contents of the stomach to bo analysed. ■The deceased was 2i years of age, Hud a clever writer of topical verse, contributing to many periodicals m New /t'a land and .Australia. He leaves a young widow, hut no family.

Who pays cue toll toi the injured worker? Consult the vita tumid insurance Company fot full protection _C. G. Bloore, chioi agent; A. G. Soddon. local mummer— ' Advt..)