ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15822, 22 July 1913, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 21. A fireman named William Champion, aged 23 years, was seen lying unconscious on the side of the Tailway line by pac-sen-gers on the incoming Rotorua express near the Bemuera station this evening. The police at Newmarket brought hi:u into the hospital. He is (suffering from a fractured skull, and is in a critical condition. He left Auckland on the 4,25 p.m. train to Hamilton, and it is surmised that he fell off the engine, the driver oi which reported at the next citation tho disappearance of his fireman. WANGANUI, July 21. A fatal accident occurred at Xukuhau, about 15 miles from Waverley, on Saturday. Thomas Sinclair, 35 years of age, a single man, was forming.'a sheep track, when a big landslip occurred, burying him. The police recovered the body yesterra>' TALMERSTON N., July 21. Richard Howlin Gidey, 40 years of age, who recently came from Devonshire (England), committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a revolver. Papers on the deceased indicated that he recently arrived from Home. He had realised on fome property there, but had no money when the body was found. He had a wife and two children in England. No cause is assigned for the deed. At the inquest a verdict of "Suicide" was returned. HASTINGS, July 21. At the inquiry into the death of Douglas Watt, horse'trainer, a verdict was returned that he died from a gunshot wound pelf-inflicted. The evidence disclosed that a recent court case, in which the deceased was fined for assaulting a Chinaman, had preyed on his mind.