ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16518, 6 April 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

RAILWAY COLLISION.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. CAPE TOWN, April 4. The Natal mail train collided with a goods train near Ileidelburg. Two children were killed and eleven passengers were seriously injured.

DEATH DUE TO RUPTURED BLOOD

VESSEL. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, April 4

A man named Alfred Larkin, thirtyeight years of age, and employed at the Glendhu Station, near Lawrence, returned to the station after having been in the Lawrence Hospital, and a few hours .after suddenly fell down and died. At the inquest a verdict was returned that death was due to the rupture of a blood vessel on tho brain.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. [Per Press Association.] NAPIER, April 5. A labourer, aged 56, who was admitted to the hospital last month, under the name of James Barry, attempted to commit suicide yesterday afternoon by cutting his throat with a razor. He was found in the lavatory by one of the nurses. He afterwards told a priest that his name was Barrett and that he came from Pelmerston North.

SUDDEN DEATH IN CHURCH. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 5. A tragic occurrence took place at St Anne’s Church, Wellington South, on Friday night. While service was being held a member of the congregation, Mrs Mary Agnes Jones, a widow, who resided in Mansfield Street, died suddenly from heart failure. Dr Giesen was called and on arrival pronounced lifo to be extinct.

SUICIDE BY TAKING POISON. [Per Press Association.] NELSON, April 4. Ethel Hammond, aged twenty-five, the wife of K. Hammond, Richmond, committed suicide by taking poison. Deceased had been melancholy since a recent childbirth, no other reason being assignable, as she was happily married.