CASUALTIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10521, 24 February 1920, Page 5

CASUALTIES

RAILWAY FATALITY. TEB TRESS ASSOCIATION. TAJHAPE, February 23. On Saturday afternoon, Patrick Leahy, a 'retired pioneer citizen of laihape, was killed on the railway. Ho missed the tram at Mataroa, and decided to walk along the railway line, and through the tunnel; He was overtaken by; a special goods train when nearly through. His age was fifty-five. He leaves a wife, eight eons, and three daughters. FATAL COLLISION. PER PHESS ASSOCIATION. OHRIS'ICiHUKCH, February 23. A young man named Nelson Dalzell was killed in a motor accident between Hawarden and Waikari on Saturday night. Deceased and a companion wero riding home from the,city on a motorcycle, and were overtaken by a motorcar. A collision occurred, and the mo-tor-cyclists were thrown heavily. Dalzell was killed almost instantaneously. DROWNING MYSITEtRY CLEARED OP. The mystery surrounding an incident at Duder's wharf, Devonport, on Wednesday morning, when p. man was seen deliberately to throw himself into the harbour, was cleared up on Friday, when the body was recovered and identified as that of Gerald William Bumpus, aged thirty-two. At the inquest it was revealed that the deceased was a returned soldier, who had been working on a farm at Ramarama, which ho left on February 7th. It was stated that he had been wounded in the arm, and was subject to fits of depression. The/ coroner returned a verdict of suicide, though there was'no evidence of the condition of the deceased's. mind at the time. *