ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18467, 31 January 1922, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SPEINaCART CAPSIZES. - ■ ■ • . “ •• , --ifUM ' ' ASHBURTON, January..3o. - James Ellery, a farmer at Mayfield,’-who « has a large 'family,, was found .dead at » Peter’s Crossing, Hinds River, lying.on hie back in the stream, with a capsized spring-* oart on top. He hod been lacked over th® ui left eye by the horse. ;■ i ~-4 RAILWAY FATALITY. , v ’> ! WELLINGTON. January 30. Mrs Hinds, aged 32 /years, was killed at ( Kaiwarra. or. Saturday evening. .She in- * tended to, get off there, and found, the train ■was leaving. Attempting, to jump . ; off,: she, was dragged under the wheels. Three, carriages gassed over her, and though.-.the train pulled up at once; as the guard-.saw-the incident, she was dead when cated. The deceased was the wife ,of «i . ] labourer, and leaves two children..At the' ■ \ inquest the coroner returned a verdict’ of 1 accidental |leath, there being no negligence j'ji on the part of anybody. RETURNED SOLDIER’S DEATH. ~ . ASHBURTON, January 30.,,. Gilbert Alexander Stewart, a butcher,- -d single, and a returned soldier, was found, . dead in Methven square with his brains; ti blown out this morning. A- shotgun was . between his legs, and the circumstances point to suicide. ... ’ -’ll FATALLY SHOT. ; CHRISTCHURCH, January 30. ' i At Little River this afternoon; Allan : James Baines, aged five years, Was accf- , dentally shot dead by William Brady, aged ;« 16 years. Thero are no details. '.liiij SUFFOCATED ' WELLINGTON, January 30. -T | Thomas Daniels, aged 55, a watetsufe .si worker, was found dead in his home in |; Tory street this evening. A pillow-cea® jj was' fastened around his head, into which a rubber tube from the gas was inserted and the gas tamed on. Deceaseds wife, ie f absent in Feliding. - , FATALITY- AT INVERCARGILL. .; Mr Francis Coutts, manager of Messrs Whittingham and Company’s brewery at Waikiwi, was the victim of a fatal aoci- jri| dent on North road on Friday -last. It is understood that Mr Coutts boarded "one of the motor lorries belonging to'the, N.'Z. Alilk Products Company when it_ was oppo- ‘ . site the brewery on its way into town, stating to -the driver that ho wanted to get . into town quickly. When the lorry reached „?) his residence, however, just over the Wai- -ij hopai bridge, Mr Coutts expressed a ,do- , i sire to alight, and jumped off without wait- 'i ing for the lorry to pull up. He fell, and , i it appears that the lorry, a heavy one,-ran -Xi over, one leg, _ fracturing it badly. -Me ,-J Coutts was carried into his homo and aiten. ~,-j ded by Dr Ritchie Crawford, but -died- i about an hour later, death apparently being ;i due to shock and loss of blood. Mr, Coutts jj was 54- years of age, and a widow Ij and grown-up family. • ji