ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16742, 24 December 1914, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SHOT HIMSELF. [Per Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, December 23. At the inquest on William M’Caw, a resident of Waimatuku, the Coroner found that death was due to a gunshot wound self-inflicted' in a fit of tenW porary insanity. STRUCK BY THE ENGINE. [Per Press Association.] PALMERSTON NORTH, Dec. 23. A young man named Herbert Kersall, aged nineteen, employed as a mail deliverer by the post office, collided with a train this afternoon and was rendered unconscious. He was taken to the hospital. He was riding a mo-tor-cycle over a level crossing and ap* parently did not notice the approaching train. After being struck by the en 3 gnie he was thrown some fifteen yards, ’ * DEATH FROSI POISON. man takes weed-killer. At 11.30 last night, Arthur Sanders, aged forty years, was sent to the Hospital, suffering from tho effects of poisoning. Sanders had been living at a boardinghouse at Cashel Street, and Inst night a fellow-ledger, entering his room, found Sanders lying on the bed, with a bottle of weed-killer beside him. Sanders was in a serious condition, and Dr Duncan was called. Shortly after the man’s admission to tho Hospital, he died. An inquest -will be held to-day, TRAMCAH ACCIDENT. About four o’clock yesterday afternoon. as the Cashmere Hills car wan coming along Colombo Street, between Bealev Avenue and Salisbury Street, David 51’Gill, aged thirteen, absentmindedly walked in front of the car. He was knocked down, and his right leg was broken. The lad was taken on tho car to Cathedral Square, and from there was removed to the Hospital iD a motor-car.