ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6811, 15 January 1929, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Hempen Release From 111-Health OLD MAN’S SUICIDE Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Last Night. Thomas Charles Goyen, aged 74 years, committed suicide by hanging overnight. Deceased had been in bad health for some years and became very despondent at times. PARMER’S SUDDEN DEMISE IN BED. CARTERTON, Last Night. Tho sudden death occurred at tho Lower Valley last night of Mr Sinclair Thomas Thompson, farmer, aged 40 years. The deceased went to bed as usual, but wakened about 1.30 by hearing the baby crying. His wife attended to the infant and returned to bed to find her husband dead. Deceased who had been married for three years, leaves a widow and one child. Ho formerly resided at Papawai and was a brother of Mr. J. F. Thompson, solicitor, of Greytown. SUDDEN DEATH AT NAPIER. NAPIER, Last Night. Percy Gilbert Howard, aged 50, died suddenly to-day after complaining of internal pains. DROVER’S FRACTURED SKULL. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The inquest concerning the death of Donald Daniel Cameron, aged 34 years, a drover who was found unconscious rear his home at Ngahauranga early on Monday last, and who died subsequently as the result of head injuries, was held to-day. Deceased was found outside one of the gates near his house with his left foot caught under the bottom rail. It was considered that he had fallen backwards while getting over the gate. The medical evidence stated that deceased died from a fracturede skull. The inquest was adjourned. BODY FOUND IN HARBOUR. WELLINGTON, Last Night. At the inquest of Mrs Annie Clark son, whose body was found in tho harbour last Thursday, a verdict of suicide was returned. BOY’S BODY RECOVERED FROM SURF. NAPIER, Last Night. The body of Roy Oxbrow, aged seven, the second victim of the Tuki Tuki double drowning fatality, was recovered in tho surf yesterday. CONCUSSION PLAYING POLO. GISBORNE, Last Night. Mr. R. K. Murphy, sheepfarmer, of Muriwai, sustained concussion whilst playing polo on Saturday and lies in hospital in an unconscious condition. His horse fell in a tangle of players and rolled on him. CAE AND MOTOR CYCLE IN HEAD-ON COLLISION. DRIVERS' SERIOUS INJURIES. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Serious injuries were suffered the two drivers concerned when a motor car and motor cycle met in a head-on collision on the Main North road last evening. John Hay, a widower, aged 37, was the driver of tho car and William Withers, of Swannanoa, aged 18, rode the motor cycle. A slight rain was falling at the time of the mishap. Both men were taken to hospital, Withers with a fractured right leg and Hay with an injury to his right eye. The latter underwent an operation today, which necessitated the removal of his eye. The motor cycle was damaged greatly and tho car also was knocked about, although not to the same extent. CRUSHED UNDER CAR. DUNEDIN, Last Night. At the inquest to-day before Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M., concerning the death of William Stanley Beal, of Maori Hill, a verdict was returned that death was due to internal haemorrhage, caused by a ruptured liver, as the result of being accidently crushed by a motor car on which ho was working. DANGEROUS LEVEL CROSSING. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. At the inquest into the death of Phyllis Irene Benson, the victim of the Wee’don’s crossing smash on December 51st. a verdict of death from laceration of the brain, due to a fractured skull, was returned, no blame being attachable to anybody. The Coroner suggested that the Railway department might instruct drivers to sound a second blast of the whistle before arriving at tho crossing, and to cut back the trees to provide a better view. The evidence of the driver of the car showed that he did not see or hear the train. EMIL FUCHS SHOOTS HIMSELF WORLD-FAMOUS SCULPTOR AND PAINTER. Received Monday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 13. Emil Fuchs, the internalionally famour painter and sculptor, committed suicide by shooting. He had been in ili-bealtb for some lime. Fuchs made sure of his aim. He held a tortoise-shell framed glass as ho pulled the trigger. His sister, arriving for a Sunday luncheon, found the body, rushed to the window and screamed, bringing pedestrians to the house. They found a note addressed to his sister, stating that he felt he was dying from cancer.