ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11770, 18 October 1932, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

MOTOR CYCLIST COLLIDES WITH CAR INJURIES PROVE FATAL (Press Association.") HAMILTON. Oct. 17. A motor cyclist, Charles Edward Belcher, '27, of Te TJku, who was admitted to hospital on Thursday with head injuries received in a collision with a motor car at Raglan, - succumbed. to liis injuries to-day, SUICIDE THROUGH DEPRESSION HOTEL-KEEPER FOUND, HANGED (Tress Association ' CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 17. Archibald Richard Pool, licensee ot tho Yal cl hurst Hotel, was found hanged in an open shed at the hotel on Sunday afternoon _ ‘At the inquest to-day a verdict was returned that Pool committed suicide while in a depressed -state of mind. CROSSING SMASH THREE YOUTHS KILLED AND FOURTH INJURED (TJ.P.A. bv Elec. Tel. Copyright.) .MELBOURNE, Oct. 17. Three youths, Wallace Herd, David Stewart, and Rex Ejdourne, were killed, and a fourth was critically injured in a crossing smash near Ballarat, .. . Eye-witnesses state tliat- their ear appeared to be trying to beat the train to the crossing. SPEEDBOAT OVER I L BN3BR OTHER; SI ST lK AND YOL'iH DROWNED. OUT. A. by Elec. Tot. Copyright) ADELAIDE, October 17. When a speed boat overturned on Cockatoo Lake, a brother and sister and a youth were drowned. . Tho victims were Lindsay Holmes, 23; Mavis Holmes, 18; and Ross Whiten'bury, 18. OVERWORKED WOMAN SUICIDES HAMILTON, Oct.. 15. A verdict of suicide, by poisoning, while suffering from acute mental depression. was returned bv the coroner, Mr Wyyem Wilson, S.M., at the inquest concerning the death . last Saturday of Elizabeth Mary Lid dington, aged 35, wife of Amos Liddington, farmer, of Rnknhia. The coroner, in giving his verdict, said the woman had been doing housework, and looking .after three children, as well as milking cows morning and evening. Owing to overwork her health broke down, and suffered from . hallucinations and mental depression, as the result of winch she was admitted to a mental hospital. The superintendent, released her on the representation of her husband that there were two women at the farm to look after, her. Howover, she was left alone in. h er disturbed condition and she took her life. ...... i“lt is a very sad indeed , he concluded. ' , Who pa vs the hill for the injured? Consult the Standard. Insurance Company for full protection.—CyG. Blooro, , chief agent. S. G. Not the local manager,— (Advt.V