ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1709, 27 December 1919, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

SAD DP: ATI! ON CHRISTMAS DAY. | 'J’l.f, ( |,. a (h occurred in tho Palmerston North Mo.,|>ilal at 5.30 o’clock on Christn.ns r.n .ning «f Mrs' Amy Eliza lurninun, wifo . ; Alt Herbert George Harnfluui; Napier road. When her husband left home at 7 n.m. on Wednesday morning the deceitod was in her usual state of health, but on returning at 11 ami., in response to a telephonic call, ho found that silo was in a precarious stare through having consumed a quantity of -ohUs ot salts. Her death occurred at tie -Aspital tho following morning The dhciamd was 44 years qf age. An inquest wav opened before _Mr A. J. Graham and was adjourned until Wednesday next.

RAILWAY FATALITY. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 27. Tho passenger train at 10.45 on Wednesday night ran over and killed Charles Do Time try, aged 20 years, a resident of itangariri, who presumably had been trespassing on the lino. DUNEDIN, Dec. 23. Alexander Crawford, an employee of the Iron Mills, was found lying .on the road at Green Island. He was carried into the Commercial Hotel and a doctor sent for. but before the doctor arrived the .man had died. A verdict that death waif duo to heart failure was returned. A boy named Ilarcourt King, of Hamilton. was chopping a piece of fencing wire at Hamilton on Monday with an axe. when the end cf tho.wire flow up and hit him in the eye. The pupil, in’s, and choroid were, torn out. and the oyo-bnll had to bo removed.