ACCIDENTS, FIRES AND FATALITIES

New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3862, 4 October 1899, Page 5

ACCIDENTS, FIRES AND FATALITIES

PEES 3 ASSOCIATION. AIASTERTON, Tuesday. Constable Worthington, who burst a. blood-vessel on the brain cn Friday night just as he was going on duty, died early this morning. Deceased was twelve years in the A.C. Force and ten years in the police. He leaves a widow and two children. DUNEDJ.N, Tuesday.: Mr Randle, schoolmaster at Shag Point, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. ] The principal' risks held by insurance companies on the ‘ Otago Daily Times’ building and contents are: —South British and Australian Alliance, £ISOO each.; Royal and New Zealand, £1250 each ; Royal Exchange, National, Standard, Victoria, Guardian, North British and Northern, £IOOO each. The loss bv Monday night’s fire is estimated at £I7OO. , At the inquest touching the death cf James Bevin, a verdict was returned that the deceased died from injuries suffered through accidentally falling’ from a building. The deceased suffered a fracture of the left arm, and of the fourth rib on the right side, an i. Injury to the lung a.fracture of the nasal ■bone, a compound fracture of the. thigh, and-a simple fracture above the knee joint. . . a ' Fears, are, entertained for the safety of Tliomas Aiild, one of the engin'e%reasers 'of tlie Talune. He wont ■aboard at seven p.m. on Sunday to get ,up steain-in-the donkey boiler. He twas seen at 9.30,-and nothing has been '-seen of him since. ’ The police intend ..dragging, where the Talune was lying at the wharf. A .small unoccupied dwellinghouse at Jolmsonville, owned by Mrs Harris and insured for £SO in the Commercial Union office, was destroyed by fire on Monday night l . r A verdict of death duo to- epilepsy Liyas returned at an inquest held at the Hospital on Monday touching the death of an Asylum patient named Charles .William Taylor. "