ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 2 November 1926, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A CRIPPLE’S DEATH. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) PUKEKOHE, Nov. 1. . John Craig, 57 years of age, a resident of Pukekohe, is supposed to have committed suicide by strangling himself this morning. Deceased, who had been a cripple for over 12 years, has had indifferent health during the last two years, especially during the last two months. He tied his pyjama string round his neck and tightened it with a clothes peg-

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER COMMITS SUICIDE. BLENHEIM, Nov. 1. A man named Alexander Mac Lean, aged 54, a commercial traveller representing Messrs Royd Bros, and Kirkj merchants, of Christchurch, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor this morning in a bedroom at the Terminus Hotel, Picton. He arrived at Picton from Blenheim on Saturday evening and went with a fishing patty to the Sounds on Sunday, returning in his usual normal spirits. During the night he complained of feelunwell and received some whisky from the licensee, which was not used. The chambermaid found his body this mornino- in a pool of blood with a. razor alongside. He wrote four letteis on Sunday, addressed and stamped them, hut none gave any indication of the reason for the act. - The coroner returned a verdict of suicide, there being no evidence to show the state of deceased’s mind when the act was committed.

INJURED BY ENGINE. AUCKLAND, Nov. 2. Mr E. H. Denny, employed as an electrician at Amusements Park, Mechanics Bay, was taking a short cut to work over an iron fence this morning when he dropped in front of an engine on the main track. He was admitted to hospital suffering from the fracture of several ribs and from severe internal injuries.