Accidents and Fatalities.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 75, 8 May 1903, Page 8

Accidents and Fatalities.

(Per Press Association.)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

INGLEWOOD, This Da*v A man named Taylor, residing ia this town, and employed on **tb« railway, attempted to cut his throat about seven this mornina • Dr, Harding TOas called in &f«j sevred up and dressud tho wofe, Tho man was taken to tho Ms^ Plymouth hospital by Constable Davys He will probably recovcj-jf no complications supervene, as lit-, tie damage was done. TIRED OF LIFE. Auckland, This Day. John Sutherland George, 40 years of act-, single, and a plumber by trad* residing at Korthcote. committed suicide by cutting his throat this morning. SUPPOSED SUICIDE. Cheistchukch, This Day. Ilie inquest on E. Y. Simpson op-red this morning, but after taking evidence covering the facts already known, was adjourned till Monday as a portion oE tno body wiH be analysed. The only ti-esti ia ct of inrpor;ance elicited iras Uwt deceased left a pencilled note io ins wife asfcinp her to forrret and forgive fcm. The evidence "showed tnat^r and M,- s Simpson were on escebeiit term*, iliat his financia position was Found and that nothing conaectca with his business could have caused mm to taks h;s life

Iv.-o miners wore killed at Ca»ticmaine (Victoria), by a fall of earth in the Francis Orraona mine.

/ At Chiltern (Victoria) a miner received injuries which resulted fatally, through falling- down a prospector's shaft. A labourer named Thomas Hogani while eating breakfast at CalCaltowie, South Australia, choked 1 himself with a piece of saveloy. | As Peter Holden, ferryman at Sawyer's Point, Strowd district, Kew South was galloping along the road with several mounted companions, his horse swerved off the road, struck a tree, tumbled and fell on him breaking his neck. A fatal accident is reported from the Ravenswood goldfield, >forth Queensland. A truck in an underlie shaft came loose from the brae* and fractured the skull of Samuel Howder, a trucker, aged 20, -who was working at the 350 ft level .Death was instantaneous.

Reports were current the other that the death of a woman which recently took place was clue to hydrophobia. It is allowed she w;>s bitten by a dog- some months ago ■ She suddenly developed alarmingsymptoms, and was conveyed to th« hospital, where she died, loaminat the mouth. The Health Com" nnssioiier and medical men say that death was caused by eclampsia, and not hydrophobia.