ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 March 1928, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

RAILWAYMAN’S FATAL INJURIES. [BY TETjEGKAPIx—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] A railwayman’s hut at Pukerua Bay caught fire during the night, and the occupant, Archibald James Amundsen, a. single man, 26 yeans of age, a tablet porter, received injuries from which he -died this morning. -The fire was discovered by the driver of a goods train passing through the station. On investigation he found Amundsen crouching unconscious on the floor, severely burned- about the upper portion of his body. He was carried on the train to Porirua, given medical attention there, and afterwards brought into the Wellington Hospital, where he died. - - - His parents live at Clive, near Hastings. TIRED OF LIFE. FUKEKOHE, March 16. A verdict of suicide was returned at the inquest concerning the death of James Carroll, 56 years of age, a single .man and a farm labourer employed by Mr. E. F. Muir, of Tekohanga, near Tuakau. Deceased, who shot himself, left a note saying: “Tired of this life, so goodbye.”