DEATHS AND CASUALTIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7300, 2 December 1910, Page 1

DEATHS AND CASUALTIES

OLD MAN'S SUICIDE '■ HANGS HIMSELF I 3J 1 HIS HOUSE . PKESS ASSOCIATION. . CHRISTCHURCH, .December, !. An old man- named' lobn Tbonms Gardner committed suicide -by hanging : ' himself at' Lytteltoh'iitbisJiilDTiiinglj.'Ho was an old ago . pensioner; about; seventy years of age, ami ,wcll-!:nowu in Lyitelton, where lie worked as a carpenter.-. Ho .lived by liimself. ’-in; a - .. littlecottage. When (he imlk-boi called this morning he received no answer,, and -on.' opening the door ivas startledibv seeing thebody of tho old man hanging by a rope., lidrushed away and iuformcd''ibe police, who .on-arrival cut the, body down.'"’The> old man probably had. been dead some time, as the body was quite cold. Gaidner was blind in. ouo.oye; mud ' be’ had’ been troubled for some time by failing ; sight, ofthe i ;:„oHiey,: i fear of becoming '.totally, - , blind hadl preyed upon bis-mind. l - The old man. had gone about (ho affair, m a very determined manner. By .standing- on a. chair placed on ’ hisibed he. had ..torn, away the scrim and paper in.tbo coiling and had fastened the rope to one of the rafteis After securing the otner end round his - nock ; hei liMi ''fit - elipfedv;off I; thfli l,? chair. / .. ,„ ~ 11 H

PALLS DEAD IN'TEAM.

CHEISTCHURCH,.- December ].'■ Thomas Mitchell, about,'s6 years of ago, a commercial ti-avcllei- 'from'‘Auckland, dropped dead in a tram on (he way) fiom Opawa to town . this, evening. lie was .scon to fall backwards, and the'tram went back. to but it. was,| fouiid , !! , that;;.Mitc^eil^wa^!,;dead<;;! , f;;|’:j RATAL TRAP ACCIDENT. ,

TIMARU,' DecenrbeT~r. —* Alfred Knoulcs, ,aged } 21, one of Dal. gety and Co’s stock agents, was killed on the load out of tonn this morning. Ho was driving a spirited horse in a sulky. !lt : 's'iai! , .suppdsed;ftthat',i“ i slipped over the shiiii.-'and tha't he ivai caught in the stay' of the shaft, being, thrown out and'dragged'some distance. Ho was found under -the wheel of tjio capsized vehicle. Deceased was a son 'of: i the late Air G. Knowles, a well-kuoua horticulturist. . „•! ’ s , 1.1 I 1 -1 ? ... , , " *-* ‘ s h KILLED IN MACHINERY. (. MAN'S HEAD CAUGHT IN PLYWHEEL. - __ INVERCARGILL, December 1, George Thomas Smyth, .a well-known resident of Invercargill, manager of the Southland Bread Company, .was accidentally killed at 9.30-to-day. - ■» Deceased was stock-taking, and uhPjit tbo engine-room men wore, employed in the’bakehouse.they 'noticed .Unit' Om machinery, driven by a 'gas-engine, uas slowing up. , i On, going into the engine-room thev found deceased lying on the floor ivi( ii. 1 ' his head stuck between* the - spokes of the flywheel of the engine. > lie had apparently slipped and fell- with-Mb head through tlie flywheel. He was quite' dead. Deceased was ' prominent ’in tho Masonic body ‘(New’ Zealand .constitution), and was ow; time Provincial Grand Master and Grand ' Superintendent for Southland ini- the Gland Lodge. Ho leaves a widow -and ifamily of four, whose ages range from ‘eighteen tothree yeai s. * - ‘ 1 ’ ~ ;.a , ! MAN CUPS - HIS THROAT. AUCKLAND,- December J; Geergo Stewart OTlalloran ’ aged sixty- . five years of age, coinmitted .suicide by cutting his thlrokt at* his.lhome. in..Par-'* ncll this afternoon. No reason is assigned for the deed beyond the tact that lie had been “out of sorts" during the last - few day*. He leaves-a widow, a eon and th-ueo daughters, one. of whom.is married. JOCKEY'S RIBS BROKEN. AUCKLAND. December 1. Mark Ryan, the well-known horseman, was thrown at Ellerslic this- morning and had three ribs broken.