ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 201, 9 August 1927, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) A collision between a motor cycle ridden by f. Maloney and a service car driven by William Gilbertson, at the intersection of Amoliau and Fenton streets, Botorua, resulted in Alaioney being sent to hospital with a broken leg. He was carried some distance by the car and had a narrow escape from death.

A fatality occurred on the main Alasterton-Carterton road a mile and a half south of Masterton at seven o’clock last night, when George Judd, aged 63, a farmer, who was cycling from his farm to Masterton, was run down by Charles Stevens a baker, ol Carterton, Aho was proceeding to a Alasonic gathering in Masterton.

The Dunedin police have received information that James Alexander King, farmer, of Roslyn Bush. Southland, was found hanging in a cowshed on Friday last on the farm of Mr William Boyd, Waiwera Smith, where deceased was visiting. Deceased had been in ill-health, and had been "worrying but on Friday morning had seemed well and had boon preparing to pay a visit to Balclutha in company with Mr Ward Boyd. Deceased leaves a wife and four young children. The body was viewed by the coroner for the district. Mr H. J. Dixon, S.M.. to allow interment, and the inquest will be held at a later date.

Peter Anderson, a farmer of Carrington, Wairarapa, aged 42, was found dead three miles from his home at 10 o'clock last night. The deceased left home in the morning to attend to his rabbit and opossum traps, takiniz a double-barrel shotgun with hnn. Failing to return by six o’clock a search party was organise.! and the traps visited. Some distance away a gun was found on the ground with both barrels discharged, and a mile further on the body was discovered in a shallow watercourse where the deceased had evidently crawled to drink, and had collapsed. Examination revealed a severe gunshot wound above the right knee and another in the right breast. The deceased was a well-known rifle and gun shot and had been familiar with firearms all his life. How the accident occurred is a mystery. The body was removed to his home and an inquest will he held to-day.

While the coastal steamer Taniwha was between Shorland and Turua oil the Thames river on a journey from Auckland to Paeroa, Frederick Wil liam Butler jumped overboard and was drowned. He left a letter addressed to the qaptain of the steamer indicating he was going to jump overhoard early this morning. The body was found on Tapu beach. It >• believed that Butler lived at Waiiii. where he was at one time engineer to the Borough Council,

The body of Thomas Joseph Hanly, aged 39. an electric linesman was found hanging from the rafters in the boiler house of the Dunedin Hospital, For some time the deceased was an inmate of the hospital but was dis charged in May.